@Tom,
I have been looking into the difference of mooreana and mystacidii & have got nowhere. The description of the flowers and plants is quite similar (including the size). The material on the web is contradicting, including flowering times. For example Aerangis mystacidii - Orchids Wiki & Aerangis mooreana - Orchids Wiki seem to actually show the same flower (it is all a question of the angle of the photo). If I look at a newly open flowered it looks like File:Aerangis mooreana.jpg - Orchids Wiki, flowers open for a couple of days move their sepals and look like File:Aerangis mystacidii.jpg - Orchids Wiki
Flowering time also is contradicting:
* Some sources say that mystacidii flowers in autumn and mooreana in spring
* Others say they flower at the same time
* Joyce Stewart's book Angraecoid orchids says that mystacidii flowers March to May and mooreana July to October
I compared the mystacidii seedling I have with the mooreana plant. They look very similar: the plant labelled mooreana has leaves whose lobes have a pointy apex, the ones on the mystacidii seedling are more rounded. But on both plants the lobes are quite irregular ...
So I am toptally at a loss. Seems these two species are often confused and it is hard to find out what information is reliable ... I will just have to wait and see whether the mystacidii seedling I also have turns out the same (-:
So unless an expert steps in, maybe I will never find out
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