ORCHIDS- ARRANGED BY SCIENTIFIC NAME STARTS WITH A

Orchids- arranged by scientific name starts with A

Ada glumacea

 It’s a Species from Central America. These are spidery green and cream flowers with deep-brown markings. It is a super fragrant flower which emits a wonderful fruity smell. Its having an intermediate growing habit.

Aeranthes grandiflora

It’s a species from Madagascar. It produces large, night-fragrant flowers that can last weeks. Sequential blooming, that can extend its flowering for over a couple of months. It’s having a warm to Intermediate growing habit. Blooming season is May - August .

Angraecum acutipetalum

It’s distribution is in  C./N. Madagascar : Montagne d'Ambre region.It can grow up to an elevation 1000-2000 m. Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte. Blooming season is Sep-Jan (Madagascar).

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Gomphocentrum (Bentham) Garay

·         Species Angraecum acutipetalum

Angraecum bicallosum

Angraecum bicallosum is a small species with greyish-white roots that appear along the stem. Zigzag tige, up to 75 cm long. Cultivate in humid temperate environment.Does not need much light. Distribution  is in N. Madagascar : Montagne d'Ambre.It can grow up to an elevation of 1000 meters. Life Form Epiphytic chamaephyte. Humid high forests area is preferred. Blooming season Jun – Sep.

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Species Angraecum bicallosum

·         Flower Size 7-8 x 11 cm

Angraecum bancoense

Angcm. bancoense looks very much like A. distichum, A. aporoides and A. podochilioides. Small, fleshy, durable leaves (0,8-1 cm). Relatively long hanging stems (15cm). Cultivation is in temperate to warm environment. Distribution is in Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast. Grows well in an elevation of 200-1600 m. Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte. It likes dense forests.

·         Kingdom   Plantae

·         Division    Magnoliophyta

·         Class         Liliopsida

·         Order        Asparagales

·         Family       Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe          Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe    Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance     Angraecum

·         Genus        Angraecum Bory

·         Genus Abreviation      Angcm

·         Species      Angraecum bancoense       

·         Flower Size     4-6 mm             

·         Fragrance  Nocturnal

 

Angraecum bracteosum

Plant living in higher altitudes to be cultivated in a temperated to cool environment in medium light. Distribution is in Africa, Madagascar, Mascarenes.

·         Kingdom                       Plantae

·         Division                         Magnoliophyta

·         Class                              Liliopsida

·         Order                             Asparagales

·         Family                           Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily                      Epidendroideae

·         Tribe                              Vandaeae

·         Subtribe                         Angraecinae

·         Alliance                         Angraecum

·         Genus                            Angraecum

·         Species                          Angraecum bracteosum

Angraecum cadetii

The rarest of the orchids is the epiphytic Angraecum cadetii, which is reduced to only thirteen known individuals, of which four are flowering plants, none of which have produced seed in the last two seasons. Angraecum cadetii Bosser belongs to the section Hadrangis, whose members are endernic to the Mascarene Islands Réunion (common) and Mauritius(rare). It was described in 1987 and named after the Reunion botanist Th. Cadet, having been confused with the Reunion endemic A. bracteosum for many years. On Reunion, A. cadetii occurs in the humid forests  from an elevation of 300 to 1200 m, where it is described as rare (Bosser, 1987). Life Form isEpiphyte.

·         Kingdom                               Plantae

·         Division                                 Magnoliophyta

·         Class                                      Liliopsida

·         Order                                     Asparagales

·         Family                                   Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily                              Epidendroideae

·         Tribe                                      Vandaeae

·         Subtribe                                 Angraecinae

·         Alliance                                 Angraecum

·         Genus                                    Angraecum

·         Genus Abreviation                Angcm   

·         Species                                  Angraecum cadetii

·         Flower Size                           20 mm

·         Blooming season                   January

                                                           

Angraecum calceolus

Angraecum calceolus is a miniature plant, generally not exceeding 25-30 cm (10-12 in.) across or less. This is a plant that will nearly grow and bloom itself. The blooms are usually green though at times shading to white. The plant is self seeding, with seed pods maturing in 6-7 months. The blooms are borne on spikes,there are usually multiple spikes. Inflorescences 15–24 cm long, up to 5-branched, each branch several-flowered. Its having  multiple blooming seasons during the year.

It is a warm to hot growing orchid.It is found in coastal forests in shady, humid forests usually at the base of shrubs and trees at elevations of 30 to to 2000 meters with very short stem carrying 3 to 10, narrowly lanceolate or ligulate, broad, distichous leaves that blooms in the summer on a racemose to paniculate.It is found in Mozambique, Madagascar as well as the Indian Ocean Islands Of Comoros, Reunion, Mauritius, the Mascarenes and the Seychelles. This is one of two species that is found in Africa as well as the Indian OceanIslands and is unusual in that, with older specimens, it is possible to have a branched inflorescence.

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Epidendroideae

·         Tribe Vandaeae

·         Subtribe Angraecinae

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Species Angraecum calceolus

·         Common Name The Small Shoe Angraecum

  

Angraecum cucullatum

This species grows on trunks and up to the highest and smallest branches. Often numerous plants on the same tree or branch are distant from each other only by a few centimeters. Young plants can bloom and can find small plants of a few centimeters in diameter with a single flower. Flowering is spectacular due to the number of plants that can each have 3 or 4 white flowers on the same branch. This species seems common in humid forests of middle elevation of 500 - 1000 m. Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte. Distribution is in Mascarenes.It can be found often on Nuxia verticillata, Calophyllum tacamahaca (Tamanu) , Psyloxyion mauritianum.

·         Kingdom           Plantae

·         Division            Magnoliophyta

·         Class                 Liliopsida

·         Order                Asparagales

·         Family               Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily         Epidendroideae

·         Tribe                  Vandaeae

·         Subtribe            Angraecinae

·         Alliance             Angraecum

·         Genus                Angraecum

·         Common Name The Cowl-Carrying Angraecum         

·         Species              Angraecum cucullatum

·         Flower Size       22 mm

·         Blooming season         Dec. Jan.

                                 

Angraecum distichum

It’s a species from Central Africa. Unusual stems of succulent-like. Leaves are plaited and tiny white flowers characterize this prolific, compact plant. Flowers are sweetly fragrant. Grows in shade, and temperatures similar to Phalaenopsis. Its having a warm to Intermediate growing habit. Blooming season is August.

Angraecum eburneum subsp. superbum

A hot growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte that occurs in hot damp tropical woods on the east side of Madagascar as well as eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands at elevations below 400 meters. This orchid needs Cattleya like light levels to stimulate blooming which occurs in the fall and early winter. Blooms occurs on axillary, 120 cm long, stout, densly many flowered racemes that can be as long or longer than the leaves. Flowers are nocturnal, long-lasting, waxy and fragrant  that occur after heavy summer fertilizing.

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Epidendroideae

·         Tribe Vandaeae

·         Subtribe Angraecinae

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Species Angraecum eburneum subsp. Superbum

·         Flower Size 8.5cm - 3 1/2"

·         Fragrance Nocturna

Angraecum erectum

It’s a Species from Africa.This African, species is an epiphytic plant. It  sends out attractive, curly roots and creamy white flowers. A hardy plant at all ends of the spectrum, great for any conditions. Blooms several times a year with one-inch flowers.  It blooms along the stem. It is a Temperature Tolerant plant.

  

Angraecum filicornu

Distribution is in Eastern Madagascar. It occurs in an elevation of 0–800 m. It prefers a habitat of Humid coastal Rain-Forest on Philippia. Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte Blooming Season is (Madagascar): Nov-Jun. Blooms on an axillary short, single flowered inflorescence. It requires a  medium light, intermediate to warm.

·         Kingdom                    Plantae

·         Division                     Magnoliophyta

·         Class                          Liliopsida

·         Order                         Asparagales

·         Family                        Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily                  Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe                           Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe                     Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance                      Angraecum

·         Genus                         Angraecum

·         Genus Abreviation     Angcm

·         Species                       Angraecum filicornu

·         Flower Size                2 cm (2/3 ")

Angraecum bicallosum

Found in Madagascar as a cool to cold growing, monopodial epiphyte with an elongated stem to 1 m (3 ft). Its having  distichous, oblong, bright glossy green leaves that are obtusely bilobed that blooms with a wiry, 2 cm (3/4") long, single flowered inflorescence. It carries a solitary, fragrant, long-lasting, non-resupinate, waxy flower. It flowers in the spring and summer. It requires an elevation of 1000-2000 m.

·         Kingdom                    Plantae

·         Division                     Magnoliophyta

·         Class                          Liliopsida

·         Order                         Asparagales

·         Family                        Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily                  Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe                           Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe                     Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance                      Angraecum

·         Genus                         Angraecum

·         Species            Angraecum  germinyanum

·         Flower Size 7-9 cm

Angraecum inapertum

It is distributed in Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion region. Life Form is epiphytic chamaephyte.

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Species Angraecum inapertum

 

Angraecum leonis

There are two forms of this species found in very different areas. The smaller form is found at the northern tip of Malagasy (Madagascar) growing near sea level. The second and larger form is found in the Comoro Islands growing at about 3000 ft. (910 m). It is a medium sized epiphyte that grows to 6-8 in. (15-20 cm) wide, and is usually less than 6 in. (15 cm) tall. While usually a monopod with a short, stout stem, secondary growths will occasionally be made from near the base of the stem( Madagascan form). The Comoro Island form may be as much as twice the size indicated. 1-2 stout inflorescences emerge from below the leaves. They are 3-4 in. (8-10 cm) long, and may be erect or suberect. Flowers are 1-7 on each inflorescence. The long-lasting, fragrant flowers are pure white and measure 1.2-1.6 in. (3-4 cm) wide and 1.6-2.0 in. (4-5 cm) tall.

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Epidendroideae

·         Tribe Vandaeae

·         Subtribe Angraecinae

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Species Angraecum leonis

Angraecum linearifolium

Distribution is in N. Madagascar.  Life Form is epiphytic chamaephyte

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum 

·         Species Angraecum linearifolium

Angraecum mauritianum

Angraecum mauritianum could be called a road side orchid as it is commonly found growin along the road to Plaine Champagne on Mauritius Island. Although epiphytic, it is always found growing on the ground of the forest or on fallen trees, never high up on trees. It is seen in an elevation of 200 to 1400m. Angraecum mauritianum is a rather small plant that never exceeds 15 cm in height; it branches easily and forms huge clumps. The deep green laves are about 10-12 cm long and 1 cm wide. The star-shaped flowers, which are of a pure white colour, are about 3 cm in diameter and carry a 6cm long greenish spur. They last for about a week and take a yellowish colour before wilting. It requires medium light, hothouse.

·         Kingdom          Plantae

·         Division            Magnoliophyta

·         Class                 Liliopsida

·         Order                Asparagales

·         Family               Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily         Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe                 Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe            Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance            Angraecum

·         Genus               Angraecum     

·         Species              Angraecum mauritianum

·         Flower Size       3 to 10 cm (1 to 4 in,)

·         Blooming season         February (Madagascar)

·         Fragrance          Nocturnal

Angraecum minutum

Distribution is in Reunion. Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte.

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum 

·         Species Angraecum minutum

Angraecum nanum

Distribution is in Reunion, Mauritius region. Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte

                                               

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Species Angraecum nanum

Angraecum oberonia

Distribution is in Mauritius, Reunion region. Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum 

·         Species Angraecum oberonia

Angraecum obversifolium

Distribution is in Mauritius, Reunion region.Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Species Angraecum obversifolium

Angraecum parvulum

Distribution is inMauritius, Reunion region. Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte.

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division  Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum 

·         Species Angraecum parvulum

Angraecum pectinatum

Distribution is in Mauritius, Reunion region.Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte.Angraecum pectinatum is perhaps the most common orchid found in the forests of Mauritius today, such as in Les Mares Nature Reserve. It is a small plant growing in clumps on branches or tree trunks. The small leaves measure about 2cm in length and are of deep green colour. The height of the plant rarely exceeds 12cm. The white flowers are very small, about 3-4 mm in diameter and last 2 to 3 days. It grows well in culture. If well looked after, the flowers are slightly bigger

·         Kingdom                    Plantae

·         Division                     Magnoliophyta

·         Class                          Liliopsida

·         Order                         Asparagales

·         Family                        Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily                  Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe                           Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe                     Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance                      Angraecum

·         Genus                         Angraecum

·         Genus Abreviation     Angcm   

·         Species                       Angraecum pectinatum

·         Flower Size                3-4mm

Angraecum praestans

Common Name or Meaning The Outstanding Angraecum

Found in Northern and western coastal Madagascar in sandy dry woods at an elevation of sealevel to 380 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte. Habitat is on trunks of Tamarin trees, regions Sambirano and West, on coastal forest, sandy ground and  on cliffs.It’s a orchid with a robust stem carrying leathery, stiff, sickle to falcate shaped, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the Spring through fall on a lax, axillary, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with deltiod bracts.

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Species Angraecum praestans

·         Flower Size  4" [10 cm]

·         Blooming Season Jan to May (Madagascar)

Angraecum ramosum

Distribution is in Mascarenes

·         Kingdom                                           Plantae

·         Division                                            Magnoliophyta

·         Class                                                 Liliopsida

·         Order                                                Asparagales

·         Family                                               Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily                                         Epidendroideae

·         Tribe                                                  Vandaeae

·         Subtribe                                            Angraecinae

·         Alliance                                             Angraecum

·         Genus                                                Angraecum

·         Species                                              Angraecum ramosum

A species complex – taxonomy uncertain (CITES)

Angraecum scottianum

This small, hot growing epiphyte with subcylydrical to terete leaves is the only Angraecom endemic to the Comoros Islands. It is found at an altitude of 350-600 meters in open exposed areas on the lower branches facing westwards.It has erect or pendant, elongated, cylindrical stems with 6 to 8, subcylindrical or terete, subulate, bicarinate, canaliculate leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and early fall on a 10 cm (4") long, axillary, slender, mostly ascending raceme with scarious bracts and fragrant, inverted, waxy, sucessively opening flowers with only one open at a time. They like hot temperature, bright light, steady water and fertilizer, in summer frequent showers and can be tree fern plaque mounted or in small wood slat baskets. It is a miniature plant which bears white flowers with a long creamy yellow spur to 20 cm. Flowers are borne mostly singly but sometimes a few form successively.

                                                                 

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Common Name Scott's Angraecum

·         Species Angraecum calceolus

Angraecum sesquipedale

This is a large sized, hot growing species from the island of Madagascar that has 1 to 6 fragrant blooms in the winter on shorter than the leaves, 12" [30 cm] long, bracteate, axillary inflorescence and is found at altitudes of 100 meters or less on sloping tree trunks and crotches of trees near the seashore and it is consistantly warm and has abundant rainfall year round that produce large, waxy, long-lived, fragrant flowers through the winter and is an evergreen epiphyte that needs even water and fertilizer and thrives if given ample air circulation. It has the common name of the 'Comet Orchid'. It has rarely straight, many leafed stems with distichous, ligulate, coriaceous, unequally bilobed apically leaves.

·         Kingdom                    Plantae

·         Division                     Magnoliophyta

·         Class                          Liliopsida

·         Order                         Asparagales

·         Family                        Orchidaceae Juss.

·         Subfamily                  Epidendroideae

·         Tribe                           Vandaeae

·         Subtribe                     Angraecinae

·         Alliance                      Angraecum

·         Genus                         Angraecum

·         Species                       Angraecum sesquipedale

·         Common Name          Star of Bethlehem Orchid

                                  Christmas Star Orchid

                                  Comet Orchid

                                  Rocket Orchid

Angraecum eburneum subsp. superbum

A hot growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte that occurs in hot damp tropical woods on the east side of Madagascar as well as eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands at elevations below 400 meters. This orchid needs Cattleya like light levels to stimulate blooming which occurs in the fall and early winter on axillary, 120 cm long, stout, densly many flowered racemes that can be as long or longer than the leaves carrying many nocturnal, long-lasting, waxy, fragrant flowers that occur after heavy summer fertilizing.

·         Kingdom           Plantae

·         Division             Magnoliophyta

·         Class                  Liliopsida

·         Order                 Asparagales

·         Family               Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily          Epidendroideae

·         Tribe                  Vandaeae

·         Subtribe             Angraecinae

·         Alliance             Angraecum

·         Genus                Angraecum

·         Species              Angraecum eburneum subsp. superbum

·         Common Name The Magnificent Angraecum, The Ivory-Colored Angraecum       

·         Flower Size       8.5cm - 3 1/2"

·         Blooming season         Fall and early winter

·         Fragrance           Nocturnal

Angraecum striatum

Found in Reunion in forests at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped completely by leafless and leafbearing sheaths and carrying stiff, ligulate, 2 ranked, distinctly veined, dark green, slightly unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, erect, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, widely spaced, several flowered racemose inflorescence with conspicuous bracts and holding the fleshy flowers all in one plane.

·         Kingdom                    Plantae

·         Division                     Magnoliophyta

·         Class                          Liliopsida

·         Order                         Asparagales

·         Family                        Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily                  Epidendroideae

·         Tribe                           Vandaeae

·         Subtribe                     Angraecinae

·         Alliance                      Angraecum

·         Genus                         Angraecum

·         Genus Abreviation     Angcm

·         Common Name          The Striate Angraecum 

·         Section                       Hadrangis Schlechter

·         Species                       Angraecum striatum

·         Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]

Angraecum umbrosum

Distribution is in Malawi N: North Viphya, Uzumara Forest, 1900 m, fl. 12.iv.1986, la Croix 834 (K; MAL). S: Zomba Mt., c. 1800 m, fl. 16.x.1980, la Croix 21 (K). Range Known only from these localities. Seen in an Elevation of 1700–1900 m. Habitat is Riverine and submontane forest .Life Form is Epiphytic chamaephyte. It is a slender, pendent epiphytic herb; stem c. 30 cm long, flattened, almost winged.Roots 1–1.5 mm in diameter, arising all along the stem.Leaves distichous, 6–12 cm × 2–4 mm, linear, falcate, acutely and unequally 2-lobed at the apex.Inflorescences arising along stem opposite leaf axils, 1-flowered but often with a second bud which aborts.Peduncle 5–20 mm long; pedicel and ovary 7 mm long with a sharp bend c. 5 mm from the base.Flowers pale yellow or yellow-green, less than 10 mm in diameter.Sepals 6–9 × 1.5–2 mm, linear-lanceolate, acute.Petals similar but slightly shorter and narrower.Lip 5–6 × 2–3 mm, very concave, acute, with a central raised callus at the base; spur 6–8 mm long, slightly swollen in apical half.Column less than 1 mm long.

·         Kingdom Plantae

·         Division Magnoliophyta

·         Class Liliopsida

·         Order Asparagales

·         Family Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily Vandoïdeae Endlicher

·         Tribe Vandaeae Lindley

·         Subtribe Angraecinae Summerhayes

·         Alliance  Angraecum

·         Genus Angraecum

·         Species Angraecum umbrosum

·         Flower Size less than 10 mm in diameter

Angraecum viguieri

Found in Madagascar at elevations of 900 to 2300 meters as a medium to large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyhte in almost full day long sun with basal roots and an erect, light green stem carrying 12 to 20, alternate, deep green, strap-shaped, slightly twisted, stiff leaves that have a distinct mid-rib and are almost equally bilobed apically, that blooms in the spring in northern climes and fall in nature with multiple, axillary, 2 3/4" to 3 2/5" [7 to 8.5] long inflorescence carring a single, fragrant flower. This is a highly desirable, yet difficult to establish orchid as it resents root disturbance. once established and rooted into a tree fern mount it can bloom at fairly small size, close to 6" [15 cm] yet can attain a height of 3' 4" [100 cm]. The flower is one of the most colorful of the genus and is variable in it's intensity of white, green, brown and orange as well as being long lasting annd slightly to highly fragrant at night. Best grown in a small basket or on a slab, it must have good ventilation and a shady spot. It is best not to allow the roots to dry out hard and should be grown as an intermediate grower.

·         Kingdom                               Plantae

·         Division                                 Magnoliophyta

·         Class                                      Liliopsida

·         Order                                     Asparagales

·         Family                                   Orchidaceae

·         Subfamily                              Epidendroideae

·         Tribe                                      Vandaeae

·         Subtribe                                 Angraecinae

·         Alliance                                 Angraecum

·         Genus                                    Angraecum

·         Genus Abreviation                Angcm

·         Section                                  9 - Arachnangraecum Schlechter

·         Species                                  Angraecum viguieri

·         Flower Size 5 3/5" [14 cm]

Anguloa (uniflora X Rolfei)

Anguloa uniflora x Anguloa Rolfei (A. brevilabris x A. cliftonii) A beautiful pearly-pink Anguloa, with a refreshing, sweet scent. A fairly large-growing plant with flower spikes standing about one foot. Cool growing. Summer blooming.

A large sized, robust, cold to warm growing terrestrial species with large, ovoid, lightly compressed, deeply furrowed longitudinally, dark green psuedobulbs carrying 2 to 3 deciduous, plicate, broadly elliptic-lanceolate, petiolate, acute-acuminate leaves.  Found at elevations of 1400 to 2500 meters from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests in deep shade.Its having deep leaf mold, with clustered, generally dark green with a satiny surface, longitudinally grooved, pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 3 to 5, smaller, leaflike sheaths and carrying 2, apical, plicate, elliptical, leaves that blooms after the deciduous leaves fall in summer until early fall on an erect, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, often 2, inflorescence with 5 to 7 graduated, inflated, large bracts with ovate, acuminate, subinflated floral bracts all arising basally as the new growths appear in the late winter.It  has a solitary, tulip-like, fleshy, fragrant, long lasting flower held at mid-leaf height. The plant is generally leafless come blooming time so the new growth has the only leaves on the plant.

·         Common Name The Single-Flowered Anguloa

·         Flower Size 4" long [10 cm]

Ansellia africana  

It’s a selection from a large-spotted variety from the Arthur Freed Collection of this robust species. Grow it in outdoors. It blooms in intermediate conditions. Species from Africa.Found in all of Africa along dry warm coasts and rivers to elevations of 2200 meters but usually below 700 meters but occasionally as high as 2200 meters. It is a highly variable, giant sized, robust species varying in size and flower color. It is found epiphyticaly in the high canopy of taller trees. They are commonly found in areas that suffer long periods without water but in cultivation they are best kept moist while growing and only a slight drop off in water and fertilizer while not in growth. They are delicately scented and appreciate higher light to bloom which is in late spring and summer on a seemingly terminal yet axillary from nodes near the apex, to 32" [to 85 cm] long panicle. Panicle is laxly many [10 to 100] flowered and carries fragrant flowers. This plant has dense mats of erect white roots making a trash basket, much like Grammatophyllum, cane-like, fusiform-cylindrical, many noded, yellow pseudobulbs carrying 6 to 7, narrowly ligulate-lanceolate, acute, plicate leaves. The Zulu in South Africa herbalists use the psuedobulb to make a tea that is used as an emetic. In Zambia, it is reported, that they use a tea made from the leaves as a remedy for madness.

·         Common Name Leopard Orchid

·         Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]

Two varieties of Ansella africana

1.      Ansella africana var nigra

2.      Ansellia africana var. nilotica Baker 1875

Arpophylum giganteum 'Santa Barbara', CCE/AOS

It’s a species from Central America. Its having a very straight, tall spikes packed with dark pink flowers. This is a vigorous variety that when awarded was the biggest specimen on record.Its a temperature Tolerant orchid. Blooming season is May.

Arpophylum spicatum

It’s a species from Central America. Its having deep purple flowers on upright stems. It is a temperature Tolerant orchid. Spring blooming.

Aspasia epidendroides

This species from central America gives off a delightful cinnamon scent. Warm growing. Summer blooming species. A fragrant, winter to fall bloomer that is often used in hybridizing and makes the new genera Miltassia when crossed with Miltonia. They are found as an epiphyte at elevations below 1000 meters in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Northern South America as an epiphyte overhanging rivers in moist forests. They have compressed, ovoidal psuedobulbs and two to three apical, linear-oblong, to narrowly lanceolate, acute or acuminate, subcoriaceous leaves, and the inflorescence, occuring in the late fall, is erect, 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, basal, racemose inflorescence with scarious, appressed, acuminate floral bracts arising on a newly formed pseudobulb . It has a few longlasting, distichously arranged, color variable, fragrant flowers that open in sucession from winter through spring. It needs crowded pot conditions and hot to warm temperatures to flower best.

·         Common Name The Epidendrum-Like Aspasia

·         Flower Size 1 1/2" long [3.75 cm]

Aspasia lunata

This Species from Brazil, aspasia is distinctive for the bright violet on it's white labellum. Intermediate growing. Summer blooming species.

A Brazilian, small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with strongly laterally compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2 glabrous, subcoriaceous, lanceolate to ligulate, acute, basally conduplicate and articulate leaves.It blooms in the spring on a erect, 3 3/4" [9 cm] long, few [1 to 3] flowered, basal inflorescence. After flowering a short 1 to 2 month rest is beneficial, resume watering and fertilizer with the onset of new growth and flowers best if given very cramped quarters in a small pot.

·         Common Name The Moon-Shaped Aspasia

·         Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]