Angraecum onivense H.Perrier 1938 SECTION NanaTYPE Drawing by © Perrier

MID

Common Name The Onive River Angraecum

Flower Size .14" [3.5 mm]

Found in east central Madagascar near the Onive River at elevations around 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with no to a short stem carrying 7 to 8, narrowly linear-lanceolate, gradually attenuate towards both ends, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the mid summer on several, from beneath the leaves, peduncle with 2 to 5 distant bracts, slightly longer than the leaves, 3.2 to 3.6" [8 to 9 cm] long, fractiflex, very loosely arranged, 4 to 8 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Lesliegraecum onivense (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide

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