Angraecum eichlerianum Kraenzl. 1882 SECTION Arachnangraecum Schlechter Photo courtesy of David Jubineau Copyright ©

Side View of Flower and Plant Photo courtesy of Anne Conrad.

Plant in situ Cameroons Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

FragrantPart shadeWarm TO Hot MOSTLY Summer

Common Name or Meaning Eichler's Angraecum [German Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm] Spur 1 1/4" to 1 3/4" [3 to 4 cm]

A large to giant sized, vining, warm to hot growing epiphytic species from the warm, humid forests of western Africa at elevations around 150 meters with erect, elongate stems that have distichously many, narrowly elliptic-oblong, unequally bilobed apically, broad leaves that blooms on an axillary, wiry, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with long-lasting, heavy textured, fragrant flowers occuring mostly in the summer.

Synonyms Angraecum arnoldianum De Wild. 1906; Angraecum eichlerianum var. curvicalcaratum Szlach. & Olszewski 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1894 drawing fide; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchds Pridgeon 1992; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Boletim CAOB #52 2003; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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