Angraecum sterrophyllum Schltr. 1916 SECTION Arachnangraecum TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
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Common Name The Rigid Leaved Angraecum
Flower Size
Found in central Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized cool growing epiphyte with a rgid stem enveloped by straited sheaths carrying ensiform, lateral faces more deverloped, forming a transverse rectangle leaves that blooms in the spring through early summer on a 4 to 5.5 cm] long, shorter to just longer than the leaves 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with an elliptic, pointed floral bract and carrying white, sometimes inverted flowers
Synonyms Arachnangraecum sterrophyllum (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981; 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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