Angraecum lecomtei H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 119 (1938).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Perrierangraecum lecomtei (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 20 (2013).
Description:
Very small plants, not more than 5 cm tall, acaulis or sub acaulis, leaves 3-6 arched or erect. Linear (1.5-3.5 cm x 1-1.5mm), narrowly pleated, unequally bilobed apically. Inflorescence single flowered, from below the leaves; peduncle 10-12 mm long. entirely covered by the 3 obtuse sheaths, compressed and provided with an enlarged dorsal edge, bracts similar to the sheaths, 4-5 mm long; fiowers white, one of the smallest of the sections, accompanied by a bracteole, the residual of a second aborted flower not developed, Sepals lanceolate (10 x 2.4 mm), attenuate from the base to the apex, acute and 6-7 veined. Petals lanceolate-acute (9.5 x 2.2 mm) 5 veined, not joined basally to the lateral sepals and the arms of the column 1.abellum narrow basally, limbus attenuate to the margins of the spur oriface, but not to the column, widely oval (12 x 8 mm), obtuse. bare basally and with 17-19 veins more or less branched; spur very thin 10-12 cm long, attenuate shortly below the wide (3 mm) oriface. Anther provided with a mossy apicule and slightly projecting in front with a notch or tridentate apically; pollina yellow, cauda retracted and with 2 distinct bandeletts. Column 4 mm, emitting 2 short, hick arms from the base, penetrating, form- mg a margin between the base of the limbus of the labellum and the margins of the spur oriface: auricles wide, nearly bilobed, rounded in front and flattened-obtuse behind; median tongue of the rostellum longer than the auricles. Pedicel 1-2 cm long.
Habitat:
Epiphyte of trunks in mossy forests, from 1200 m alt., is flowering in February.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, cool growing epiphyte.
Distribution:
NE. Madagascar
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 27.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
Images:
Click on each image to see a larger version.
| In culture | In culture |
 |
 |
| Photograph© Olaf Pronk. Image used with kind permission. | Photograph© Olaf Pronk. Image used with kind permission. |
