Angraecum praestans Schltr. 1913 SECTION Angraecum
Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
Photos by Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Outstanding Angraecum
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found in southern and western coastal Madagascar in sandy dry woods at an elevation of sealevel to 820 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte with a robust stem carrying leathery, stiff, sickle to falcate shaped, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on a lax, axillary, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with deltiod bracts.
Synonyms Perrierangraecum praestans (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 photo fide; A Culture Manual for Angraecoid Orchid Growers Hillerman 1992 photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; 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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