Angraecum pyriforme Summerh. 1936 SECTION Afrangraecum
Photo/Marcel Lecoufle/Drawing by Francisco Perez-Vera
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Common Name or Meaning The Triangular-Shaped Angraecum [refers to the lip apex]
Flower Size .64" [1.6 cm]
Found in Ivory coast and Nigeria in rain forests in semi-shade at low elevations as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an elongate, upright at first becoming pendent, leafy stem carrying 2 ranked, narrowly lanceolate to oblong, slightly unequally bilobed apically, the shorter lobe quite distinct leaves that blooms in the later spring on a short, slender, erect, successively single to 2 flowered inflorescence with short bracts and carrying small, green to yellowish green non-resupinate, night scented flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006;
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