Angraecum eburneum Bory 1804 SECTION Angraecum Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Ivory-Colored Angraecum

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm] Spur 2 3/4" [7 cm]

Found in Madagascar, the Mascarenes and Reunion as a large to giant sized, erect, hot growing monopodial epiphyte at elevations of sealevel to 750 meters with stout, branched stems carrying 10 to 15, rigid, coriaceous, ligulate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the early winter in the northern hemispere, on an axillary, ascending or horizontal, to 4' [120 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence with long-lived, inverted or non-resupinate, fragrant, heavily waxy flowers arranged in 2 ranks.

Synonyms Angorchis eburnea (Bory) Kuntze 1891; Angraecum eburneum var. virens (Lindl.) Hook. 1860; Angraecum virens Lindl. 1847; Limodorum eburneum (Bory) Willd. 1805

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2004; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchds Pridgeon 1992; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1997; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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