Angraecum compressicaule H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 118 (1938).
Description:
Plants 10-20 cm tall, rigid. Compressed (3-4 mm wide), covered by the compressed, carinate sheaths bearing 5-10 apical, distichous, slightly arched linear leaves (2-3 cm x 2-3mm), rigid, coriaceous, contracted basally and with the terminal lobes obtuse and unequal. Inflorescences single flowered, from in the superior leases, not from in the axillary sheaths; peduncle short (4-8 mm.), covered entirely by the 3-4 obtuse and carinate-compressed sheaths; bracts longly emarginate, 5-6 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, attenuate from the base toward the subacute apex and 5 veined, veins very visible, the laterals slightly larger (13-15 x -3-4 mm) than the median (11-13 x 4.5-5 mm). Petals wider (5-5.6 mm) than the sepals, obtuse, attenuate from the middle toward both ends, 5 veined, the laterals with 1-2 branches toward the edges. Labellum narrow basally, inserted at the front edge of the spur oriface, dilate (8-10 mm) above the center, attenuate length-wise toward the subacute apex and thick, 1.5-2 cm long, 5-7 veined, the medians simple, the externals branched, sprinkled with several hairs on the veins and provided with 2 small costules; spur cylindrical, 12- 15 mm long Anther truncate in front, with the connective thin; pollina yellowish, round and small. Column 2 mm long is without any traces of the basal arms; auricles wide and rounded; median tooth of the rostellum sub deltoid and very short. Pedicel 1.8 - 2.2 cm long.
Habitat:
Epiphytes of trunks or lithophytes, in mossy forests; flowering in February.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
C. Madagascar
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 25.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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