Angraecum infundibulare Lindley 1862 SECTION Arachnangraecum Schlechter Photo courtesy of Carl Withner.

Side Flower View Photo courtesy of Ben Berliner and Willow Pond Orchids.

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Common Name or Meaning The Funnel-Shaped Angraecum [Lip]

Flower Size 3 1/2" maximum horizontally and 6 to 8" vertically [8.75 cm x 15 to 20 cm]

A large sized, monopodial, hot growing epiphyte from Nigeria, Cameroon, Principe, Congo, Zaire, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya in hot and humid rainforests at elevations of sea leavel to 1350 meters that has an elongated, leafy, terete, somewhat fractifex, rarely branching stem subtended by leaf sheaths and having roots all along the length carrying, thin textured, narrowly oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on a pendant, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, bracteate, solitary flowered inflorescence occuring in the fall and winter with long-lasting, strongly fragrant, waxy flowers. Because this species has roots that occur all along the long rambling stem in the leaves, it is best potted with a moss pole [as for climbing indoor plants] so the stem can be tied up until the roots can enter the pole.

Synonyms Angorchis infundubularis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Mystacidium infundibulare [Lindl.] Rolfe 1898

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1997; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004;Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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