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Aerangis fastuosa; photograph (c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2017-10-06

Aerangis fastuosa (Rchb.f.) Schltr.

Orchidaceae · Madagascar · listed by its genus as an orchid

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Summary

Aerangis fastuosa, commonly known as the 'magnificent Aerangis', is a species of epiphytic orchid endemic to Madagascar. It is widespread across Madagascar, stretching from the eastern coastal forests across to the south and along the central plateau. Aerangis fastuosa belongs to the family Orchidaceae, subtribe Aerangidinae.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Aerangis fastuosa", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Aerangis in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Aerangis in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 69 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 69 of the 69 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMadagascar · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-18.837, 48.316 · in the densest population, 54 records (78% of those in range)
Kew's description“epiphytic subshrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 69 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 49 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 69 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 69 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2); Bouba, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Aerangis 10 in the reference

Aerangis articulata Aerangis articulata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Rosario DouglasAerangis biloba Aerangis biloba Orchidaceae Photo: Public domain, author not statedAerangis citrata Aerangis citrata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, avocatAerangis ellisii Aerangis ellisii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Thibaud AronsonAerangis hildebrandtii Aerangis hildebrandtii Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dalton Holland BaptistaAerangis kotschyana Aerangis kotschyana Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dalton Holland BaptistaAerangis luteoalba Aerangis luteoalba Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedAerangis macrocentra Aerangis macrocentra Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, Hermann Kári HannessonAerangis mystacidii Aerangis mystacidii Subtropical Moustache Orchid Photo: CC BY, Andreas De BeerAerangis thomsonii Aerangis thomsonii Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated

Names & registers

Also known as Angorchis fastuosa; Angorkis fastuosa; Angraecum fastuosum; Rhaphidorhynchus fastuosus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Rchb.f.) Schltr.
Native to
Madagascar
Wild records
69 in range · 49 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2169 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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