Angraecum superbum Thouars 1822 SECTION Angraecum
Photo by Jean Claude George
Common Name The Magnificent Angraecum
Flower Size 3 1/2" [8.75 cm]
Found on the east side of Madagascar as well as eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands at elevations below 400 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte that occurs in hot damp tropical woods that blooms at most any time of the year on axillary, 4' [120 cm] long, stout, densly many flowered racemes that can be as long or longer than the leaves carrying many nocturnal, long-lasting, waxy, fragrant flowers
Flowering occurs after heavy summer fertilizing with higher light.
Synonyms Aerobion superbum Sprgl. 1826; Angorchis brongniartiana O. Ktze. 1891; Angorchis superba (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Angraecum brongniartianum Rchb.f 1854; Angraecum comorense Kraenzl 1892; Angraecum comoroense Hort.; Angraecum eburneum var. brongniartianum (Rchb. f. ex Linden) Schltr. 1913; Angraecum eburneum Bory subsp. superbum (Thouars) H. Perrier 1941; Angraecum eburneum Bory var superbum (Thouars)Hawkes 1965; Angraecum voeltzkowianum Kraenzl. 1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing fide; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as A brongniartianum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as A eburneum var superbum; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as A eburneum ssp superbum drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 5 1962 as A comorense photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 Angraecum eburneum var superbum; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 as A comorense photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 9 1981 photo good plant only; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1982 as Angraecum eburneum var superbum; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1982 as Angraecum eburneum var superbum; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 as A eburneum ssp superbum photo ok; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A comorense; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995 as Angraecum eburneum ssp superbum; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 photo fide; Flora's Orchids Nash and La Croix 2005 as Angraecum eburneum ssp superbum; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 as Angraecum eburneum ssp superbum; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 as A eburneum ssp superbum; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide as A eburneum subsp superbum; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #1 2014 photo fide; as A eburneum var superbum AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #9 2014 as A eburneum subsp superbum photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 as A eburneum subsp superbum photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 as A eburneum subsp superbum photo fide;
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