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Angraecum filicornu Thouars, Hist. Orchid.: 52 (1822).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Aerobion filicornu (Thouars) Spreng., Syst. Veg. 3: 716 (1826).
Aeranthes thouarsii S.Moore in J.G.Baker, Fl. Mauritius: 35 (1877).
Pseudojumellea filicornu (Thouars) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 21 (2013).
Description:
Plants 10-25 cm tall, often with simple stems, slightly compressed (1.5-2 mm wide), covered by the traversely rugose sheaths, finely striate and of a cinnamon brown; roots verrucose; leaves linear (4,5-9 cm x 1.5-4 mm), soft, graminiform. Inflorescence from in the sheaths, single flowered, shorter than the leaves, peduncle covered by the sheaths in the lower half only; bracts short (1 .S-2 mm); flowers white of average size (12 mm). Sepals lanceolate acute 12 mm long. Petals narrower. Labellum lanceolate slightly panduriform obviously wider above and below the center, subacute apically; spur filiform 11cm long. Column very short, auricles rounded; rostellum without a median tooth. Pedicel 20-25 mm long Capsule narrowly elliptical (25-30 x 6 mm), equally attenuate toward both ends, 3 winged and with wide margined suturals.
Habitat:
Grows epiphytically in forests at 800 meters in altitude, flowering between November and June.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, warm growing epiphytic.
Distribution:
Mascarenes, Madagascar
References:
Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Miniature Orchids Northern 1988; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1981; 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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Photograph© Gasikara Natiora Tiako. Image used with kind permission.	Photograph© Gasikara Natiora Tiako. Image used with kind permission.	Photograph© Gasikara Natiora Tiako. Image used with kind permission.