Angraecum section Pectinaria (Benth.) Schltr., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36: 157. 1918.
Synonym:
Mystacidium Lindl. sect. Pectinaria Benth., J. Linn. Soc. 18: 337. 1881. Pectinaria (Benth.) Cordem., Rev. Gen., Bot., 11: 412, 420. 1899, non Haw., 1819 (Apocynaceae s. l.). Ctenorchis K. Schum., Just's Bot. Jahresber. 1899(1): 467. 1901. Epidorchis Thouars sect. Pectinaria (Benth.) Kuntze in von Post & Kuntze, Lex. Gen. Phan., 200. 1903, orth. var.
Description:
Epiphytic, erect or pendant herbs with distinct, elongate and glabrous stems, branched and loosely leafy. Leaves numerous, green, fleshy, alternate and elongate, linear or with a distinct blade, never compressed laterally and never equitant. Root system fine, glabrous or finely puberulous. Inflorescences short, in general 1-flowered, borne along the stem or opposite a leaf; suberect and subsessile, sheath brown. Bract one, amplexicaul, broadly ovate. Flowers white, small, scented, and nearly sessile in the axils of the leaves. Peduncle short, hardly developed. Pollinia often sessile on the viscidium or viscidia, without a distinct stipe or shortstipitate, rarely with a well-developed stipe.
Type:
Angraecum pectinatum Thouars.
Species in Angraecum section Pectinaria
| Angraecum dasycarpum Schltr. | NE. Madagascar. |
| Angraecum hermannii (Cordem.) Schltr. | Réunion |
| Angraecum humblotianum Schltr. | E. Madagascar. |
| Angraecum pectinatum Thouars | Mascarenes, Comoros, Madagascar. |
Distribution:
The continental African species of Angraecum section Pectinaria are mainly distributed in rain forests of the Guineo-Congolian region
References:
Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Species of Angraecum Section Pectinaria (Orchidaceae) by Murielle Simo-Droissart, Bonaventure Sonké, Vincent Droissart, Daniel Geerinck, Claire Micheneau, Porter P. Lowry II, Gregory M. Plunkett, Olivier J. Hardy, and Tariq Stévart, Systematic Botany, 39(3):725-739. 2014; POWO (2022). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/Retrieved 15 November 2022."
