Angraecum infundibulare

 Angraecum infundibulare Lindl., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 6: 136 (1862).

Angraecum infundibulare Lindl., Photo by Helena Rame

its native range is Nigeria to SW. Kenya.

Latinh Name: 

Angraecum infundibulare Lindl.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Angorkis infundubularis (Lindl.) Kuntze

Eichlerangraecum infundibulare (Lindl.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka

Mystacidium infundibulare (Lindl.) Rolfe

English Name:

The Funnel-Shaped Angraecum (refers to the Lip shape).

Description: 

It has an elongated, leafy, terete, somewhat fractifex, rarely branching stem subtended by leaf sheaths and having roots all along the length carrying, thin textured, narrowly oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a pendant, 15 to 20 cm long, bracteate, solitary flowered inflorescence with long-lasting, strongly fragrant, waxy flowers.

Distribution:

Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Zaïre.

Ecological:

A large sized, monopodial, hot to cool growing epiphyte,  in hot to cool and humid rainforests at elevations of sea leavel to 1350 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall.

Flower size:

20.0 cm.

Cultivation:

LIGHT/LOCATION: shady

TEMPERATURE: warm (20 - 24 °C

WATERING: Pour every 7 days

FERTILIZATION: once a month

Grow in bright diffused light and intermediate to hot conditions. Grow in medium fir bark or full sphagnum moss. Water regularly. Plant is best mounted

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