Angraecum mirabile Schltr. 1918 SECTION Arachnangraecum

Photo by Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Wonderful Angraecum

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in northeastern Madagascar at elevations of 100 to 500 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a round, rigid stem enveloped by striate and warty sheaths carrying many, spreading, rigid, narrowly linear, incurved marginally appearing terete, subacute leaves that blooms on an axillary, slender, stiff, 1.8 to 2.2" [4.5 to 5.5 cm] long, mostly single flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION!!! Many references cite this species as a synonym of A conchoglossum. It is an ambiguous species as the type has been destroyed.

Synonyms Arachnangraecum mirabile (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger, Senghas 1985 photo ok; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 drawing/photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans & Campbell 2006; Orchids of Mdagascar Hermans, Du puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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