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Angraecum linearifolium Garay, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 23: 160 (1972).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Angraecum palmiforme H.Perrier, Mém. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Sér. B, Biol. Vég. 6: 268 (1955), nom. illeg.
Arachnangraecum linearifolium (Garay) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 11 (2013).
Description:
Plants with long slender stems up to 30 cm long and 2 mm in diameter. Leaves well spaced along the stem, ca. 1.2 cm apart, linear, perfectly cylindric with a narrow furrow on the upper side, 5-11 cm long, ca. 1 mm in diameter. Inflorescence single- flowered; bract broadly oval, 1.5-3 mm long; pedicel and ovary 2 cm long. Flower white, sepals and petals tinged with pink or brown; sepals narrowly lanceolate at the base then acute-filiform in the upper two thirds, dorsal sepal 2-4 cm long, 4 mm-wide; lateral sepals longer and narrower than dorsal sepal; petals much smaller, up to 7-25 mm long, 3 mm-wide lip concave, almost circular, long acuminate, basal part 8-12 mm long, with a conspicuous longitudinal keel on its surface, acumen ca. 15 mm long; spur pinkish brown, filiform, 9-10 cm long.
Habitat:
Epiphyte in shady forests at medium altitudes; 900-2000 m; flowering between October and December, and also at other times of the year.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, warm to cold, growing epiphyte.
Distribution:
N. & EC. Madagascar
References:
Field Guide ToThe Orchids of Madagscar Cribb & Hermans 2009; 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.

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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.	Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission.