Angraecum dendrobiopsis Schltr. 1925 SECTION Pseudojummellea Photo by © Lourens Grobler

LATE THROUGH

Common Name or Meaning The Dendrobium-Like Angraecum

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

This small to large sized, cool growing epiphytic orchid is found in Northern Madagascar on moss and lichen covered trees in mossy rainforests at altitudes around 1000 to 2000 meters with a pendant stem carrying linear-lanceolate, unequally and acutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring and fall on a short to 4 3/4" [4 to 12 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered raceme with fleshy flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007