Angraecum rubellum Bosser, Adansonia, n.s., 10: 22 (1988).
Description:
Plant small, more or less stemless, all parts tinted with red, 2-3 cm high. Leaves obovate to elliptic, blade twisted against the sheath to lie in one plane, rigid, with small acute lobes at the apex, slightly keeled on the back, green, more or less tinted with red, 15-22 mm long, 10-13 mm wide. Inflorescences axillary, as long as or longer than the leaves; all parts covered with red papillose hairs; bracts alternately arranged, small. Flowers fleshy, whitish or tinted pink; sepals with red papillose hairs on the outer surface, oval, acute, with a minute apiculus,2-2.5 mm long; petals similar but shorter, and narrower, 1.7-1.8 mm long; lip concave, rounded, acute,2.5 mm long and wide; spur slightly flattened, papillose within, 2.5-3 mm long.
Habitat:
This species is endemic to Madagascar, where it grows in the province of Toamasina at elevations of 500 to 999 m asl. It is known only from the type specimen made in 1963 from the Moramanga area. Epiphyte in evergreen forests; flowering in March.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
ENE. Madagascar
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 28.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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