Angraecum urschianum Toill.-Gen. & Bosser, Adansonia, n.s., 1: 101 (1961).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Perrierangraecum urschianum (Toill.-Gen. & Bosser) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 20 (2013).
Description:
Very small epiphytic plant, only 2-3 cm tall; many smooth, green roots 1-1.5 mm in diameter; very short, densely leafed stem, 3-3.5 mm thick; leaves 8-23 X 5-8 mm, thick and fleshy, with defiticulate edges, folded along the midrib, their upper surface covered with sunken dots, unequally obtusely bilobed; inflorescences from the leaf axils, one flowered; peduncle 6—9 mm long, halt to entirely covered by three or four sheaths; flower medium-sized, with somewhat fleshy divisions, sepals and petals pale green or greenish yellow, lip white, and spur pale green; dorsal sepal 10-11 mm long, 3 mm wide; lateral sepals identical, but slightly oblique; petals 9-9.5 x 2-2.5 mm, five veined; lip 10-13 x 7.5-9 mm, many-veined, though veins not visible on the fresh flower; spur filiform, 11-12 cm long; pedicellate ovary 3.8 cm long.
Habitat:
Growing in rain forest at moderate altitudes, flowering in September.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, warm to cool growing epiphyte.
Distribution:
ENE. Madagascar
References:
Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009; Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013; WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 28.01-2017; 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. | Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission. | Photograph Gilles Grunenwald. Image used with kind permission. |
