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Angraecum caricifolium H.Perrier, Notul. Syst. (Paris) 7: 128 (1938).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Lepervenchea caricifolia (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 17 (2013).
Description:
Plants upright 0-25 cm tall, stem slightly compressed, very thin (3-4 mm in diameter), sheaths whitish, narrowly appressed and with 3-6 distant leaves, linear (5-7 cm x 4 mm), very thin, rigid, canaliculated-pleated, slightly roughened marginally, nearly denticulate, and terminated by 2 obtuse unequal lobes. Inflorescence 2-6 cm long: peduncle longer (1.2-4 cm) than the rachis, covered basally with 2.3 distant sheaths; cluster loosely 5-10 flowered; rachis heavily sinuate; bracts deltoid and short, equaling about a quarter the length of the pedicel. Sepals 3 mm long. attenuate from the wide base (1 mm) toward the acute apes. Petals smaller (2.5 x 0.6 mm) than the sepals. Labellum concave, oval-lanceolate (3 x 2.5 mm); very narrowly attenuate, above the wide base, very papillous above and provided with a very small keel; spur thick, cylindrical, obtuse, 2.5 mm long and l mm wide. Anther of a pale color, slightly wider than tall, notch and sides rounded in front; pollina obovate, with a single common cauda, narrow and elongated. Column thicker (l mm) than tall (0.5 mm): auricles recurved and acute behind, joined by the viscidium near their tips; median tooth of the rostellum absent. Pedicel 3 mm long. Capsule small, obovate 3 x 1.5 mm), 3 angled and with 3 projecting bandeletts.
Habitat:
Epiphytes of trunks; in mossy forests, from 1400 m alt.; flowering in January.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, cool growing epiphyte.
Distribution:
C. Madagascar
References:
AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 6 1980 photo; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981 as A carifolium; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009; WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 25.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission.	Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission.

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Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission.	Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission.	Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission.	Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission.