Angraecum ochraceum (Ridl.) Schltr. 1915 SECTION Boryangraecum
Photos by Andreas Hegenbart
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Ochre Yellow Angraecum
Flower Size .4" x .6" [1 cm x 1.5 cm]
Found in the eastern lowlands of Madagascar at elevations of sea level to 100 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying several, narrow, linear-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the late spring, summer and early fall on 1 to 2, erect, thin, 2.8" [7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Boryangraecum ochraceum (Ridl.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013; Epidorkis ochracea (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; Macroplectrum ochraceum (Ridl.) Finet 1907; *Mystacidium ochraceum Ridl. 1885
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939 drawing fide; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart Hermans Campbell 2006 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cibb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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