Angraecum equitans Schltr. 1916 SECTION Perrierangreaecum Schlechter Photos courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretumMendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech

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Common Name The Riding one above the other Angraecum

Flower Size 1 2/5" to 2 1/5" [3.5 to 5.5 cm]

This species occurs in Madagascar at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte that requires a pot to maintain the humidity, but watch not to overwater. This species grows in a lichen forest on outer branches of moss and lichen covered trees and has a stem which branches freely in mature plants and is most often upright and not pendant, and is densely, equitant leafed with fleshy, dark green, curved and somewhat glossy, and obtusely bilobed leaves. This species blooms in the summer in Madagascar on a [3" [7.5 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by folded bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Miniature Orchids Northern 1988; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006