Angraecum falcifolium Bosser 1970 SECTION Lemurangis
Photo by © Gilles Gruenwald
TYPE Drawing by © Bosser
Common Name The Sickle Shaped Leaf Angraecum
Flower Size
Found in south central Madagascar in shady forests at high elevations as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with long, flattened, branching stems carrying imbricate, 2 ranked, very distinctive, folded along the midline, compressed, oval, oblong, falcate to recurved, amplexicaul, apically bilobed leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, almost as long as the leaves, .6 to .72" [1.5 to 1.8 cm] long, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with a triangular, shorter than the ovary floral bract andcarrying small, green flowers
Synonyms Lemurangis falcifolia (Bosser) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo/drawing fide
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