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Orchid Species: Angraecum augustum

Kew currently accepted name is Aerangis verdickii

Angraecum augustum is an orchid species identified by Rolfe in 1908. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Aerangis verdickii.
Genus
Angraecum (Angcm.)
Grex
augustum
Parents
Species
Author
Rolfe
Year
1908
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ORIGIN: Found from Rwanda, Zaire, Angola, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Transvaal South Africa as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, smaller, monopodial epiphyte from open woodlands usually on high branches but occasionally on rocks from 100 to 1800 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, smaller, monopodial epiphyte from open woodlands usually on high branches but occasionally on rocks from 100 to 1800 meters with a short stem carrying 2 to 6, oblong-ligulate, undulate margins, subequally bilobed apically, the lobes acute or obtuse, thick, fleshy, gray green leaves that can be deciduous if the plant dries out in the winter that blooms in the spring or summer on a 16 [50 cm] long, few to several [10 to 12] flowered, racemose inflorescence with sweet smelling flowers, needing to be mounted, given partial shade and a dry winter.

FLOWER SIZE: 1 to 2 inches with a 5 to 8 inch spur [3cm with 12 to 17 cm spurs] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Aerangis Aergs verdickii 1918 (De Wild.) Schltr.
Add+ Aerangis Aergs erythrura 1972 (Kraenzl.) Garay
Add+ Aerangis Aergs rusituensis 1997 Fibeck & Dare
Add+ Aerangis Aergs schliebenii 1937 Mansf.
Add+ Angraecum Angcm verdickii 1902 De Wild.
Add+ Angraecum Angcm erythrurum 1929 Kraenzl.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Aergs. verdickii 'Tails of Woodburn' (2 awards in 2006) Aergs. verdickii 'Creole' (2 awards in 1984) Aergs. verdickii 'Jaco' (2002) Aergs. verdickii 'Hunabu' (1981) Aergs. verdickii 'Seth' (1978)
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