Angraecum pauciramosum Schltr. 1925 SECTION Lepervenchea
Photos by © Giles Grunenwald
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
Common Name The Few Branched Angraecum
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in east central and eastern Madagascar at elevations around 800 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with pendent, few branched, heavily leafy stems carrying numerous, ligulate to linear, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the winter through spring on a very slender, .8 to 3.2" [2 to 8 cm] long, 4 to 7 flowered inflorescence with thin, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying tiny, yellowish flowers
Synonyms Angraecum graminifolium (Ridl.) Schltr. 1915; Angraecum poophyllum Summerh. 1953; Epidorkis graminifolia (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; Lepervenchea pauciramosa (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013; Monixus graminifolius (Ridl.) Finet 1907; Mystacidium graminifolium Ridl. 1885
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as A graminifolium; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A poophyllum; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy,Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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