Angraecum musculiferum H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 129 (1938).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Lepervenchea musculifera (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 17 (2013).
Description:
Plants upright, 6-30 cm tall, stem 3-3.5 mm in diameter; sheaths finely veined; leaves very numerous, distichous, widely linear (2-5.5 cm x 7-8 mm), terminal lobes unequal and obtuse. Inflorescences numerous, from the leaf sheaths in the superior leaves, solitary or geminate, equal in length to the leaves or slightly longer; peduncle thin, 2.5-3 cm long, bearing a small number of sheaths; cluster with the rachis 1.5-3 cm long, sub sinuate, 4-10 flowered, flowers yellowish. 3-4 mm apart, bracts thin, acute, generally 1.3 mm long. Sepals oval-lanceolate (4 x 1.5 mm) acute, obscurely 3 veined. Petals lanceolate-acute (3 x 0.6 mm), 1 veined. Labellum very concave, navicular (4 x 2.6 mm), acuminate-acute, 7 veined; spur cylindrical, 2.5 mm long and 0.6 mm in diameter. Anther small (0.6 mm), slightly excised apically. Column very short, auricles taller than wide, rounded apically; median tooth of the rostellum absent. Pedicel twisted, 3-4 mm long.
Habitat:
Grows epiphyticahly on tree trunks in moss forest at 1,200 to 1,400 meters in altitude, flowering between September and April.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
N. Madagascar
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 27.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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| Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission. | Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission. | Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission. |
