Angraecum section Dolabrifolia (Pfitzer) Garay
Description:
Epiphytic, erect or pendent herbs with distinct elongate stems, densely leafy, rarely branched. Leaves numerous, green, short, distichous, fleshy, amplexicaul at the base, laterally compressed and densely imbricate. Root system fine, glabrous or finely puberulous. Inflorescences short, in general 1-flowered, borne along the stem, opposite the leaves, suberect, subsessile, sheath brown. Bract one, amplexicaul, broadly ovate. Flowers white, sometimes with yellow or orange sepal and petal tips, small, scented. Peduncle short, hardly developed. Pollinia often sessile on the viscidium or viscidia, without a distinct stipe or short-stipitate, rarely with a well-developed stipe.
Type:
Angraecum distichum Lindl.
A Key to the species of Angraecum section Dolabrifolia
World Checklist of Monocotyledons.The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.kew.org/wcsp/monocots/ accessed 12/02/2017
