Angraecum pumilio Schltr. 1916 SECTION Boryangraecum

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Dwarf Angraecum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in north & central Madagascar in montane eriaceous scrubland and lichen rich forests at elevations of 1000 to 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying distichous, imbricating, linear-ligulate leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on filiform, .4 to 2" [1 to 5 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Boryangraecum pumilio (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; 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; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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