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Angraecum urschianum |
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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 Endl.
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Tribe
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Vandaeae
Lindl.
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Subtribe
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Angraecinae
Summerh.
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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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Perrierangraecum
Schltr.
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Species
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Angraecum urschianum
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Authority
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Toill-Gen.
& Bosser
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Source
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Adansonia, n. s., i. 101 (1961)
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Synonyms
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Etymology
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Ursch's Angraecum [French Orchid Collector 1900's]
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Distribution
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NE. Madagascar
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Range
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Habitat
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Humid evergreen forest at intermediate elevation, moss
forest
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Altitude
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1000 to 1200 m
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Life Form
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Epiphyte
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Flowers
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Flowering time
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Sep
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Fragrance
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| Angraecum urschianum - Photo courtesy
of Olaf
Pronk |
Description
Found in east central Madagascar in rain forests at elevations
of 1000 to 1200 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing
epiphyte with stiff, dark green with raised white green bumps,
keeled leaves that are unequally bilobed apically and denticulate
edges that blooms on an axillary short, single flowered inflorescence
with several arising at the same time
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