Angraecum setipes Schltr. 1925SECTION Acaulia
Photos by Gilles Grunenwald and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name or Meaning The Bristley Column Foot Angraecum
Flower Size .5" [1.25 cm]
Found in central and eastern Madagascar in moss forests at elevations of 100 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte without a stem with 5 to 6, thin, lanceolate-linear, narrowing towards both ends, unequally acutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the winter through summer on numerous, 2 to 3.6" [5 to 9 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with an oval, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bract
Synonyms Hermansia setipes (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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