Angraecum sororium Schltr. 1925 SECTION Angraecum
Photo by Fred Hillerman courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
Photo by Bob Campbell and the Orchids of Kenya ©,
Common Name or Meaning The Closely Related Angraecum [refers to it's similarity to A sesquipedale]
Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]
Found in central Madgtascar in and among rocks in full sun tempered by mist and clouds at elevations of 1600 to 2200 meters as a large sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte with an erect stem enveloped in maturity by several leafless dry, brown sheaths and carrying many, stiff, ligulate, in 2 upright rows, unequally bilobed apically, shiny bright green leaves that blooms in the summer on several, axillary, shorter than the leaves, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence with obtuse bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 9 1981 photo fide; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 2 1986 photo fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 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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