Angraecum pterophyllum H.Perrier 1938 SECTION Pectinaria Schlechter
Photos by Gilles Grunenwald and Orchids Forum Website
EARLIER
Common Name The Winged Leaved Angraecum
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in east central and eastern Madagascar on branches in mossy forests at elevations of 960 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying to 10, distichous, flat, elliptical, undulate-pleated, recurved margins, exteriorly provided with a very projecting wing leaves that blooms in the summer and earlier fall on 1 to 2, axillary, peduncle .06" [1.5 mm] long, enveloped by 3, loose, apiculate sheaths, the uppermost cobers the base of the cucculate, apiculate floral bract, single flowered inflorescence
CAUTION Perrier in his description says that the plant is single flowered so please use with caution!!!!!
Synonyms Pectinariella pterophylla (H.Perrier) Verlynde & Ramand. 2016
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; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 as Pectinariella pterophylla photo fide;
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