Angraecum lecomtei H. Perrier 1938 SECTION Perrierangraecum Schlechter
Photo by Marni Turkel
Photos by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
Common Name LeComte's Angraecum [French Doctor 1800's]
Flower Size 3/4" x 8"
Found in Madagascar in mossy evergreen forests at elevations around 1000 to 1440 meters as a super miniature [2"] sized, cool growing epiphyte with 3 to 6, arching to erect, linear, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on a single flowered, .4 to .48" [1 to 1.2 cm] long inflorescence arising from below the leaves and completely enveloped by 3 obtuse, compressed, dorsally enlarged sheaths and carrying the giant [for the plant size] flower with an 8" [20 cm] long spur.
Synonyms Perrierangraecum lecomtei (H.Perrier) 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 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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