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Angraecum ramosum Thouars, Hist. Orchid.: 59 (1822).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Angorchis ramosa (Thouars) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 651 (1891).
Macroplectrum ramosum (Thouars) Finet, Mém. Soc. Bot. France 9: 29 (1907).
Arachnangraecum ramosum (Thouars) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 11 (2013).
Description:
Plants with robust stems, sometimes climbing, leaves very numerous. Leaves distichous, rigid, but thin, oblong or elliptical, slightly attenuate toward the base, semi-amplexicaule and very unequally, bilobed apically. Inflorescence from in the sheaths, slightly, shorter than the leaves or equal to them, peduncle covered by several basal sheaths, bracts very small, acute, an eighth to a tenth the length of the pedicel. Median sepal (6 cm long) 5 veined and with the tower lamina oval-lanceolate, elongated by a long, filiform acumin; lateral sepals slightly longer (7 cm long), with the lower lamina narrower and more elongated, obscurely attenuate in a filiform point and 7 veined, the dorsal of which projects behind. Petals nearly similar to the median sepal, but slightly shorter. Labellum suborbicular (22 x 23 mm) elongated by an 8 mm long acumin, provided basally with a median keel and with the veins less numerous (15-17); spur filiform, 10-11cm long; attenuate gradually from the oriface to the apex. Column very short, thicker than tall; auricles subsquare with the superior angles obtuse, the inferiors rounded; median tooth of the rostellum short, deltoid and entire. Anther slightly pleated-visor shaped in front, with the margins very short; pollina 2, with their cauda retracted, inserted with the retinacles in the pit of the lobule; retinacles 2, well separated, without a distinct viscidium. Pedicel generally 3 cm long.
Habitat:
In rain forests on rocks, trees and on the ground at elevations of sea-level to 1500 meters.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, hot to cool growing epiphyte.
Distribution:
Mascarenes
References:
Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids 1965; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006;WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 28.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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