Angraecum decaryanum H.Perrier 1938 SECTION Lemurangis Photo by Lourens Grobler

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Common Name De Cary's Angraecum [French Public Servant and Orchid Enthusiast early 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in southwestern Madagascar on bushes and succulents in dry regions and coastal forests at elevations up to 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a very long, slender stem carrying reddish, recurved, linear, keeled below leaves that blooms in the late fall on an axillary, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence with a broadly oval, acute bract

Synonyms Lemurangis decaryana (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans & Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchidsof Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009;

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