Angraecum dendrobiopsis Schltr. 1925 SECTION Pseudojummellea

Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name or Meaning The Dendrobium-Like Angraecum

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

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

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 drawing fide; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Boletim CAOB #52 2003; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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