Angraecum kranzlinianum H.Perrier 1941 SECTION Perrierangraecum Schlechter

Photo by Jean Bosser

EARLY

Common Name The Kranzlin's Angraecum [German Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm]

Found in northern and central Madagascar in mossy and lichen covered foprests on trees and shrubs at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 11 to 25, two-ranked, fleshy, folded along the midrib so that the upper surfaces almost cohere, narrow and somewhat arching, 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm] long, rounded apically leaves that blooms in the early summer on a shorter than the leaves, peduncle very short, entirely enveloped by 3, short, thin, scarious sheaths, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Aeranthes engleriana Kraenzl. 1893; Angraecum englerianum (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1915; Perrierangraecum kranzlinianum (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, 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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