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Angraecum panicifolium H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 105 (1938).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Angraecoides panicifolia (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 10 (2013).
Description:
Plants with pendent stems, 10-15 cm long, thin (1-1.3 mm in diameter), bearing toward the apex 5-6 linear leaves (3 5-3.8 cm x 1.3-2.2 mm) and thin; sheaths narrow, 1-1.4 cm long, traversely rugose. Inflorescences single flowered, very short (1.2 cm long), bearing an axillary leaf-like sheath, peduncle of a slight 2 mm long, entirely covered by the 2 large sheaths, bracts large, obtuse, half to one-third the length of the pedicel, flowers white, small and glabrous, often accompanied by a narrow lingual, the remnants of the second aborted flower. Median sepal lanceolate (6 x 2.2 mm), very slightly attenuate from the base to the obtuse apex, 4 veined; lateral sepals larger (7-8 x 2.5 mm), enlarged marginally toward the base. Petals lanceolate (5.5 x 2.5 mm), slightly attenuate toward the base, sub obtuse and 2 veined. Labellum 7-8 mm, long, oval, concave, 4 mm wide above the base, slightly contracted medially, attenuate-sub obtuse lengthwise, 9 veined, slightly diverging; spur attenuate below the spur oriface, wide (2.2 mm), nearly cylindrical-obtuse, 5-6 mm long. Anther depressed, 1.5 mm wide, provided in front with a triangular tongue, truncate apically; pollina small (0.4 mm), yellowish, with distinct cauda and viscidiums. Column 1.5 mm tall, auricles deltoid, very acute apically; median tongue of the rostellum deltoid and very acute, 0.6 mm long, not much shorter than the auricles. Pedicel generally 6 mm long.
Habitat:
Epiphytes of trunks; in mossy forests, from 1000 m alt.; flowering in February.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, warm to cool growing epiphyte.
Distribution:
NE. Madagascar
References:
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. 27.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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