Orchid- Angraecum calceolus (Madagascar)

A very small (miniature) orchid from Madagascar.

Angraecum calceolus produces flowering stems that are beautifully decorated with leafy, lime-green coloured flowers. When Angraecum calceolus is in bloom, the overall effect is rather charming and starry.

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Found in Madagascar in coastal forests in shady, humid forests usually the base of shrubs and trees at elevations of 30 to to 2000 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with a very short stem carrying 3 to 10, narrowly lanceolate or ligulate, broad, distichous leaves that blooms in the later spring, summer to early fall on a racemose to paniculate, 6 to 12" 15 to 30 cm long inflorescence with, laxly few to several 4 to 6 flowers and all shorter than the leaves that 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 Ocean Islands and is unusual in that, with older specimens, it is possible to have a branched inflorescence.