Angraecum corynoceras Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 33: 345 (1925).
Description:
Stems to 25 cm long 3 mm in diameter, covered by the brown sheaths, leaves numerous, linear (6-10 cm x 5-7 mm), slightly attenuate toward the base and unequally bilobed-obtuse apically. Inflorescences very thin, nearly equal o the leaves, single or double flowered; peduncle setiform, to 9 cm long, hearing several short, distant sheaths below the center; bracts oval-apiculate, much shorter than the pedicel; flowers yellowish, divisions generally 8 mm long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute and 3 veined the laterals narrower than the median. Petals narrowly lanceolate, acute and 3 veined. Labellum oval-sub acuminate (7.5 x 4 mm) and 3 veined; spur 8 mm long, cylindrical then recurved and swollen-clavate toward the apex. Column short (1.5 mm). Pedicel sub triquetrous, generally 9 mm long.
Habitat:
Epiphytes, pendent or ascending, in lichen forests, from 2000 m alt.; flowering in January.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
N. Madagascar
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 25.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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