Aerangis modesta (was stylosa)

Very nicely flowered T. Mig!!. My plant of this species produced an extremely long inflorescence, about 24 inches, on which only half of it produced buds. So now I have 14 buds on only the bottom half of the inflorescence. The first 12-13 inches of the inflorescence is bare! Any idea why this happened?

 

Bravo!!! I see your punctata is just about ready for pics as well.

 

Yea, I'm pretty sure I brought in a dead one last year.

 

Yes, I have a couple of them from Malala. I'll dig around and see if I can find a picture. They are bitty little things, but seem to do better than some of the bigger species on import.

 

So fantastic!

 

Its exquisite! Bravo! =)

 

exquisit plant - indeed, but i think it´s not stylosa, rather articulata
these mistagged plants actually appear all over the globe.

 

I agree with Matthias.

Here is a picture of the true stylosa

 

ALL stylosa offered as fl. plants in Europe are articulata (and sometimes hybrids / articulata x ?). So there is the need to identify which stylosae are true ones and start a propagation among the correclty identified plants of us serious Angraekoid-enthusiasts, spreading seeds and plants especially among the Angraecoid-nuts who got fooled.
But it gets still worse, seedlings of mystacidii were sold as mooreana to whole-sellers, articulata were sold as being modesta, somalensis were made out of verdickii ... . We expect these plants getting offered as young plants 2-3 years from flowering in about 2013, some appear already now, and it seems hardly one gets doubts. Mistakes can happen but this quote reminds me of intentional fraud. Not to think of the mess when these plants get mislabelled into any pollinia-sharing and propagation.

 

Uh-oh. I got my stylosa as a seedling back in '08 and it seems to be up to blooming size now. I might have a stylosa, or I might have a second articulata. Only time will tell.

The two somalensis seedlings I got last year seem to be correct, at least based on Stewart's leaf description; the mottled venation. My verdickii's leaves look nothing like it. But I have at least a couple years before they bloom (hopefully) and I find out. The proof is in the flowers.

I'll have to wait on the modesta -- I have the one BS plant and two mounted seedlings of a different clone.

Thanks for the heads-up.

 

CJ - I wrote from the European situation actually. That´s why it is really important to act carefully. I suppose due to the hybrid-tsunamie growers aren´t attentive anymore and rely on what the tag tells. The next is that there are a lot of wrong pictures circling in the internet - happening even in Jay Pfahl´s compendium partly. People often look at the flower only disregarding the habitus of the entire plants. Leaves, roots, ... all of these offer important hints in order to identify a plant correctly. Especially what´s about Aerangis it´s partly easy (easier) as there are species having the dove-alike shape of the flowers and others which are flowering in a typical star-form and the rest is anyhow in-between.
I am not even convinced it is about articulata shown above => leaves and their upright position don´t suit anyhow, plain stem, would rather fit to modesta. But what is against modesta ... the zig-zag grown spike. I really don´t know but def. no stylosa.

 

For that very reason, Jay Pfahl long, long ago put a disclaimer at his website that he was using the information and photos he had been given; within certain parameters, of course.

According to Stewart, there are two varieties of verdickii: var. verdickii and var. rusituensis. The varieties reportedly have a very different appearance according to her description and seem to come from different habitats.

 

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This should clarify things: