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

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Common Name The Fat Angraecum [possibly refers to the seedpod which is quite rotund]

Flower Size 1 4/5" [4.5 cm]

Found in east central Madagascar at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters in moss forests on tree trunks and among rocks as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with a stem that is densly leafed in the apical portion with thin, light green, fairly equally bilobed and strongly veined leaves and blooms on a very short to 1 1/5" [2 to 3 cm] and carrying a single flower that occurs in the early spring.

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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