Plant and Flower in situ Reunion

Photo by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website

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Common Name The Combed Angraecum

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Reunion and Madagascar in humid and shady forests on bare trunks and branches at elevations up to 1700 meters as a miniature sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte with a stiff, simple or few branched stem carrying numerous, distichous, terete, linear, subacute, thick and fleshy leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on an axillary, sessile, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Aeranthes pectinatus (Thouars) Rchb. f. 1864; Aerobion pectinatum (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; Angorchis pectangis (Thouars) Kuntze 1894; Angorchis pectinata (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Ctenorchis pectinata (Thouars) K. Schum. 1899; Epidorkis pectinata (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Macroplectrum pectinatum (Thouars) Finet 1907; Mystacidium pectinatum (Thouars) Benth. 1881; Pectinaria thouarsii Cordem. 1899; Pectinariella pectinata (Thouars) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing hmm; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger, Senghas 1985; 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; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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