| Angraecum stolzii Schltr. |
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| Family : ORCHIDACEAE |
Protologue : Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 663 (1915)  |
| Information on the genus : Angraecum |
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Status
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Angraecoides stolzii (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & al. |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Epiphytic herb with leafy ± 2-edged stems 2,5-40 cm long with numerous slender elongated roots amongst leaves; leaves distichous, linear, falcate, 4,5-9x0,4-0,9 cm, apex unequally and acutely 2-lobed; inflorescences 2-3 cm long, 1(-2)-flowered borne at each node below roots, 2-3 together, opposite a leaf; peduncle filiform, 0,5-1,7 cm long; flowers cream or yellow-green, turning orange with age, 1,7-2 cm Ø; pedicel and ovary 4-6 mm long, twisted; tepals lanceolate, acuminate, 7-9x1,5-3 mm; lip ovate, boat-shaped, 5-8x3-5 mm; spur straight or slightly curved, 5-9 mm long, clavate. |
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| Ecology : |
Evergreen forest and forest patches; forest; riverine forest; “at all levels up to the canopy, dangling in tangled masses and often falling and being caught in the undergrowth, then becoming established there” (I. la Croix & al., Orchids Malawi: 241, 1991). |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Exell, A. & Wild, H. (1998). Flora Zambesiaca: Mozambique, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Bechuanaland Protectorate. London Kew 11[2]: 374
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
| see under The International Plant Name Index |
| see under Flora of Mozambique |
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| Record n°43501 |
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