Angraecopsis lemurelloides P.J.Cribb & Hermans 2021
Photo by Patrice Antilahimena/TYPE Drawing by © Juliet Beentje and Kew Bull. 76: 40 J Hermans 2021
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Common Name The Lemurella Like Angraecopsis [Refers to the similarity of the flowers to those of the genus Lemurella Schltr.]
Flower Size .28" [7 mm]
Found in Antsiranana province of Madagascar in humid forest, at elevations around 1550 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with an arching to pendent, zigzag, flattened, the margins winged, woody stem carrying alternate, coriaceous, flat with an indistinct central vein, lanceolate-linear, narrowing towards the apex, attenuate, the base subcordate, surface somewhat glossy, pale green leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an axillary, emerging from the leaf-axils along the entire length of the stem, sometimes several produced from the same axil, 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] long, peduncle wiry, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, provided with a short thin, brownish bract at the base of the peduncle, 1 to 2 sheaths above, rachis loosely racemose, wiry, 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, somewhat zigzag, 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence with amplexicaul, green becoming brown with age, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying small, yellowish green flowers.
"Angraecopsis lemurelloides is recognized by the long zigzag flattened stem with lanceolate-linear leaves alternate along its length, small flowers on the upper third of the serial wiry inflorescences, and flowers with petals and sepals that are fused at the base and with a mucronate tip to the mid-vein, the roundly 3-lobed lip with a concave epichile with wiry hairs at the base and the lateral lobes enveloping the column and a short inflated spur. It is very different in plant habit and flower morphology from Angraecopsis parviflora , the only other Angraecopsis Kraenzl. (Kraenzlin 1900: 171) recorded from Madagascar. That species has a stem that is always much shorter than the leaf, a lip with three distinct attenuate lobes and a slightly longer spur. In habit and inflorescence it somewhat resembles A. trifurcafrom the Comoros but it has a much longer stem, carrying leaves along its length, the flowers being about half the size, the spur much shorter and the lip very different (three distinct attenuate lobes in A. trifurca). It is closest to Angraecopsis pobeguinii from the Comoros in flower size and in having a lip with small rounded lateral lobes but the plant of A. pobeguinii is much smaller (1.4" [3.5 cm] long), the stem shorter (.4" [1 cm] long), the leaves much smaller (c. .8" [2 cm] long), the spur is also much more clavate towards the apex." Hermans 2021
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 76: 43 J Hermans 2021 Photo/drawing fide
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