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Angraecum curnowianum |
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Kingdom
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Plantae
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Division
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Magnoliophyta
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Class
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Liliopsida
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Order
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Asparagales
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Family
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Orchidaceae
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Subfamily
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Vandoïdeae Endlicher
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Tribe
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Vandaeae
Lindley
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Subtribe
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Angraecinae
Summerhayes
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Alliance
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Angraecum
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Genus
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Angraecum
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Genus Abreviation
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Angcm
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Common Name
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Section
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Species
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Angraecum curnowianum
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Authority
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(Rchb.f.)
Dur. & Schinz
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Source
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Consp. FL Afr. v. 41 (1892)
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Synonyms
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Aeranthus curnowianus Rchb.f.
Angorchis curnowiana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
Angraecum suarezense Toill.-Gen. & Bosser
Angraecum subcordatum (H.Perrier) Bosser
Jumellea curnowiana (Rchb.f.) Schltr.
Jumellea subcordata H.Perrier
Mystacidium curnowianus (Rchb.f.) Rolfe
Rhaphidorhynchus curnowianus Finet 1907
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Etymology
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Curnow's Angraecum [English Cultivator of species 1800's]
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Distribution
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NW Madagascar : Imerina region
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Range
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Altitude
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below 1400 meters
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Habitat
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Life Form
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Epiphyte
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Flowers
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25 to 35 mm
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Flowering time
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Mid summer to fall
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Fragrance
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Culture
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Mount this orchid on cork or treefern and drench almost daily, fertilize
weekly and give it deep shade.
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This mysterious Angraecum was described more than 45 years ago from an unknown
locality. It had not been seen since. This plant is from a mountain range in
N.W.Madagascar. It is a beautiful species with large, lasting flowers and very
nice, thin leaves.
Description
Miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with almost no stem and carrying
bluntly to acutely bilobed, brownish, leathery, generally glossy, often covered
with tiny greyish dots, leaves that are then trimed along the margins with more
brown color. The roots of this species are distinct because they are flattened,
grey, finely warty, and have amber to copper colored root tips. This species
blooms in the mid summer to fall on an axillary, 2 3/4" to 3 1/4" [7 to 8 cm]
long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence giving rise to flowers that ahve a spur
that in bud forms a perfect circle but as the flower opens it straigtens out to
a half curve and eventually appears to be "S" shaped and is 4 to 5 1/4" [10 to
13 cm] long.
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