Angraecum appendiculatum Frapp. ex Cordem. 1895 SECTION Bonniera Photos by Fred Henze © and his Trek Nature Website

Plant and Flowers in situ Reunion Photo by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website

part shade Warm TO Cool LATESpring EARLY Summer

Common Name The Appendaged Angraecum

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Reunion in rainforests at medium elevations as a medium sized, warm to cool growing monopdial epiphyte with a basally branching stem carrying 2 ranked, ovate, cordate, amplexicaul leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a single flowered, axillary, .4" [1 cm] long, inflorescence

Synonyms Bonniera appendiculata (Frapp. ex Cordem.) Cordem. 1899

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Bonniera appendiculata; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Bonniera appendiculata; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 as Bonniera appendiculata drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 48-49 Vandeae 1986 as Bonniera corrugata; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 drawing/photo fide;

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