Angraecum moratii Bosser 1970 SECTION Pseudojumellea
Photos by Olaf Pronk
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Common Name or Meaning Morat's Angraecum
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in northern and east northeastern Madagascar at elevations around 900 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with strong, erect becoming pendent with age, somewhat flattened stems carrying 2 ranked, widely spaced, twisted to lie in one plane, thick, fleshy, linear-lanceolate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on opposte the leaf base, peduncle stiff, 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence carrying fleshy flowers.
Synonyms Pseudojumellea moratii (Bosser) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo hmm; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;
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