Aerangis luteoalba var. luteoalba.
Description:
Flower colour creamy white or pale yellow, the column the same colour as the perianth.
Habitat:
In riverine forests on small twigs and branches of bushes and trees, rarely on trunks at elevations of 1250 to 2200 meters and appreciates a humid environment.
Cultivation:
In the summer the plant is in full growth and they need high humidity and plenty of water and fertilizer until mid autumn when it should be reduced, but not to the point of being dry.
Distribution:
Congo to SW. Uganda
References:
Beaton, C. 1985. Indoor light culture for Aerangis rhodosticta. American Orchid Society Bulletin, 54(8):963. Bechtel, H., P. Cribb, and E. Launert. 1980. Manual of cultivated orchid species. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. Cavestro, W. 1980. Aerangis rhodosticta (Krzl) Schltr. - An African pygmy. American Orchid Society Bulletin, 49(5):509. Hawkes, A. D. (1965) 1987. Encyclopaedia of cultivated orchids. Faber and Faber, London. Hillerman, F. 1986. Growing Aerangis Orchids. American Orchid Society Bulletin, 55(8):803. Hillerman, F. E., and A. W. Holst. 1986. An introduction to the cultivated Angraecoid orchids of Madagascar. Timber Press, Portland, Ore. Northen, R. T. 1980. Miniature orchids. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. Piers, F. 1968. Orchids of East Africa-Nairobi, Kenya. Verlag von J. Cramer, 3301 Lehre. Stewart, J. 1984. Growing Angraecoid orchids - Part 1 - Introduction. American Orchid Society Bulletin, 53(7):731: A Revision of the African Species of Aerangis (Orchidaceae) Kew Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 2 (1979), pp. 239-319; WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 19.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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