Angraecum pingue Frapp. ex Cordem. 1895 SECTION Angraecoides

Photo by © Fred Henze

Plant and Flowers in situ Reunion

Photo by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website

Part shade Warm Cold LATER Spring Summer

Common Name The Very Strong Angraecum

Flower Size 1.1" [2.8 cm]

Found in northwestern Madagascar, Mauritius and Reunion at elevations of 400 to 2200 meters in moss forests on lichen covered tree trunks as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with a simple, leafy stem carrying narrowly ligulate, thick, attenuate towards the apex, obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on an axillary, short, peduncle very slender, .12 to .14" [3 to 3.5 mm] long, with 2 short basal sheaths, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Angraecoides nasuta (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013; Angraecum nasutum Schltr. 1925; Mystacidium pingue (Frapp. ex Cordem.) Cordem. 1899

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as A nasutum; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A nasutum; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 photo fide; 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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