Angraecum crassifolium (Cordem.) Schltr., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 33(2): 433 (1915).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Mystacidium crassifolium Cordem., Rev. Gén. Bot. 11: 422 (1899).
Gomphocentrum crassifolium (Cordem.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 14 (2013).
Description:
Plants acaulis sheaths heavily striate, leaves 4-5, very thick, widely linear (8-10 x 1-1, 1 cm),provided with a dorsal edge and 2 deeply unequal terminal lobes, lnflorescence 10-12 cm long, upright; peduncle 3-4 cm long, covered basally by 4 sheaths, and with 1 additional sheath above, wide, truncate apically and 5-6 mm long, rachis thick; bracts thick, very obtuse, 5-6 mm long and wide; flowers 5-7, white, thick, loosely arraigned. Median sepal oval-lanceolate (1.5 cm x 6 mm), acute; laterals longer and slightl3 narrower than the median, curved-sickle shaped and widely winged marginally. Petals oval-lanceolate (1.3 cm x 5.5 mm), provided with a dorsal keel. Labellum very concave, widely oval (1.3 x I cm) with a thick apicule toward the base, joined and attenuate in front: spur with a wide oriface (4 mm), shortly attenuate then cylindrical, 2.5-3 cm long. Anther slightly thick, wide (3 mm), notched behind truncate in front with a small median point, pollina creased, very compressed (1.6 x I .3 mm), without cauda hut with 2 distinct bandeletts, elongated (2.5 x 0.6 mm) and parallel. Column twice as wide 4 mm) as tall (2 mm), auricles very thick, straight or slightly curved behind, median tooth of the rostellum small (0.2 mm) and thick. Pedicel 1.5 cm long.
Habitat:
Epiphytes of trunks: in eastern forests: flowering in September.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
Réunion
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 25.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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