Angraecum spectabile Summerh. 1958 SECTION Arachnangraecum

HOLOTYPE Collections Sheet by Summerhayes 1958 Kew's Plants of the World Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Outstanding Angraecum

Flower Size

Found in Tanzania at elevations around 1100 to 1200 meters as a small sized,cool growing lithophyte with an erect, few branched to simple, leafy along almost its entire length, slightly compressed stem carrying distichous, open to erect-open, longitudinally multi-ribbed, slightly compressed, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, narrowing at the apex, unevenly bilobed, longer lobe rounded, slightly curved, shorter lobe anrrower, fleshy coriaceous, the nerve beneath prominent leaves that blooms in the late sprinmg and early summer on an erect-patent, peduncle smooth, almost straight, 1.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence and carrying green and white flowers

"This species is clearly very near A. eichlerianum but has shorter and broader leaves, an even broader labellum and a much longer spur. After A. infundibulare it has the largest flowers of any mainland species." Summerhayes 1958

Synonyms Eichlerangraecum spectabile (Summerh.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 13: 275 Summerhayes 1958

Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 13 Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013 as Eichlerangraecum spectabile

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