Angraecum dasycarpum Schlechter 1918 SECTION Pectinaria

Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name or Meaning The Rough-Podded Angraecum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.3 cm]

This is a small sized, hot to warm growing northern Madagascan, epiphytic or sometimes lithophytic orchid found in coastal eastern forests on mossy rocks or trees at elevations of sea-level to 800 meters with hairy roots supporting cylindric, pendant to erect stems carrying dense, oblong, obtuse or shortly apiculate, fleshy, broad, brown speckled leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a very short, sheathed inflorescence that carries a solitary white flower. Pectinariella dasycarpa (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger, Senghas 1985; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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