Angraecum panicifolium H. Perrier 1938 SECTION Pectinaria Schlechter

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

MID EARLIER

Common Name The ? Leaved Angraecum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Madagascar on tree trunks in mossy, lichen rich forests at elevations around 190 to 1200 meters as a miniature to just small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a pendant, thin stem carrying towards the apex, 5 to 6, well spaced, thinly linear, narrow, subacute leaves that blooms in the mid summer and earlier fall on an axillary, very short, single flowered inflorescence holding the small, glabrous flower close to the leaf axils.

Synonyms Angraecoides panicifolia (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

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