Angraecum multiflorum Thouars 1822 SECTION Gomphocentrum [Bentham] Garay
Plant and Flowers in situ Reunion
Photos by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website
TYPE Drawing by © Thouars and Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
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Common Name The Many Flowered Angraecum
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped completely by imbricating leaf bases and carrying elliptic, unequally bilobed and obtuse apically leaves that blooms in the spring through summer on several, lateral, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, shorter to just longer than the leaves, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Aerobion multiflorum (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; Angraecum caulescens var. multiflorum (Thouars) S.Moore 1877; Epidorkis multiflora (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Gomphocentrum multiflorum (Thouars) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013; Monixus multiflorus (Thouars) Finet 1907; Mystacidium caulescens var. multiflorum (Thouars) T.Durand & Schinz 1894; Mystacidium multiflorum (Thouars) Cordem. 1899
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing hmm; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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