Aerangis pallidiflora H. Perrier 1938
Photo by Grunenwald Gilles
Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
Common Name The Pale Flowered Aerangis
Flower Size .6" [1.6 cm]
Found in eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests on twigs and branches at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short, woody, erect to horizontal stem carrying 2 to 6, held in a fan, elliptic to broadly elliptic, minutely bilobed apically, conduplicate and almost petiolate basally, dark green leaves that blooms in the summer on 1 to 3, pendant, axillary, arising below the leaves, 10" [25 cm] long, 7 to 9 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Angraecum ramulicola H.Perrier 1938
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1938/81 as Angraecum ramulicolum; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 9 1986 photo fide;An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as Angraecum ramulosum; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #4 2006 photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 photos fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo hmm; Phytotaxa 373 (2) © Descourv. 2018 - A New Genus of Angraecoid Orchids Photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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