Angraecum musculiferum H. Perrier 1938 SECTION Lepervencha Schlechter

Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

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Common Name The Mussel-Carrying Angraecum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Madagascar on tree trunks in mossy forests at elevations around 1200 to 1550 meters as a miniature to just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect, stem carrying numerous, distichous, widely linear, unequally obtuse apically leaves that blooms in the spring on numerous, axillary, 2 1/4" [5.5 cm] long, 4 to 10 flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ]; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981

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