Angraecum drouhardii H.Perrier 1938 SECTION Perrierangraecum Schlechter

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Plant

Photo by Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

Full Shade CoolFall ANDSpring

Common Name or Meaning Drouhard's Angraecum [German Orchid Enthusiast and Schlechter's Father in Law 1900's]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Madagascar in mossy montane forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short thickened stem carrying 5 to 12, 2 ranked apically, rigid, oblong, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall and again in the spring on an axillary, single flowered inflorescence entirely covered by 2 to 3 sheaths and a similar floral bract.

Synonyms Perrierangraecum drouhardii (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing hmm; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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