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Angraecum pectinatum Thouars, Hist. Orchid.: 51 (1822).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Aerobion pectinatum (Thouars) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3: 717 (1826).
Aeranthes pectinata (Thouars) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 900 (1864).
Mystacidium pectinatum (Thouars) Benth., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 337 (1881).
Angorchis pectinata (Thouars) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 651 (1891).
Epidorkis pectinata (Thouars) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 660 (1891).
Ctenorchis pectinata (Thouars) K.Schum., Just's Bot. Jahresber. 27(1): 467 (1901).
Macroplectrum pectinatum (Thouars) Finet, Mém. Soc. Bot. France 9: 25 (1907).
Pectinariella pectinata (Thouars) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 19 (2013).
Heterotypic Synonyms:
Angorchis pectangis Thouars ex Kuntze, Bull. Herb. Boissier 2: 459 (1894).
Pectinaria thouarsii Cordem., Rev. Gén. Bot. 11: 413 (1899).
Description:
Plants with rigid stems, 10-20 cm tall, simple or few branched, 2-4 mm in diameter, covered by the short (4 mm) sheaths. Leaves numerous, distichous, elongated-linear 12-16 mm long sub acute, non emarginate apically. Flowers small, whitish, bracts oval-acute 4 mm long. Sepals oblong, obtuse and 6 mm long. Petals slightly narrower and shorter than the sepals. Labellum similar to the sepals, nearly flat but acute, spur almost straight swollen apically slightly more and 2 mm long, halt as long as the pedicel. Column short, cauda distinct, viscidiums absent.
Habitat:
In humid and shady forests on bare trunks and branches at elevations up to 1700 meters.
Cultivation:
It grows well in culture. If well looked after, the flowers are slightly bigger, warm to hot growing epiphyte.
Distribution:
Mascarenes, Comoros, Madagascar
References:
Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009;WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 28.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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