Angraecum striatum Thouars 1822 SECTION Hadrangis Photo by Lourens Grobler

Plant in situ in Reunion Photos by Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

Common Name or Meaning The Striate Angraecum [refers to its veined leaves]

Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]

Found in Reunion in forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped completely by leafless and leafbearing sheaths and carrying stiff, ligulate, 2 ranked, distinctly veined, dark green, slightly unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, erect, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, widely spaced, several flowered racemose inflorescence with conspicuous bracts and holding the fleshy flowers all in one plane.

Synonyms Aerobion striatum (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; Angorchis striata (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Angraecum distichophyllum (Finet) A.Rich. ex Schltr. 1915; Gastrochilus striatus (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Macroplectrum distichophyllum Finet 1907; Monixus striatus (Thouars) Finet 1907; Mystacidium striatum (Thouars) Cordem. 1899; Saccolabium striatum (Thouars) Lindl. 1833;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing fide; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 photo fide; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A distichophyllum; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007

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