| Aeranthes peyrotii photo Z |
| taxonomy | describeb by | Bosser, Jean-Marie |
| published in | Adansonia : recueil pèriodique d' osservations botanique n.s. 11 (1) : 89 1971 | |
| Family | Orchdaceae | |
| Subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| Tribe | Vandeae | |
| Subtribe | Angraecinae | |
| Genus | Aeranthes Lindley 1824 | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origin | evergreen forest in Madagascar (Tamatave, Toamasina, Lake Alaotra, Mangoro, Didy, |
| Antananarivo, Analamanga, Antsinanana) | ||
| altitude | 772 - 1300 m (2542 - 4190 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Fenoarivo Be (Antananarivo, Madagascar) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Cwb, humid subtropical climate, with hot summer | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1000 m / 3300 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Fenoarrivo Be this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 13 h 13 m' to 10 h 47 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | low | |
| inflorescence | length | 40 - 50 cm (16" - 20"), axillary |
| nr flowers | one at a time | |
| size | a flower 3 L 5 cm (1.2" L 0.5") | |
| duration | a flower ≈ 20 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 270 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
