Angraecum tenuispica Schltr. 1918 SECTION Lepervencha

Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

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Common Name The Weak Inflorescence Angraecum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in eastern Madagascar as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with a simple stem carrying many, densely, thin, lingulate or lingulate-linear, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on 3 3/4" [7 cm] long, loosely 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Lepervenchea tenuispica (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, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009

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