They named it in honor of Francisco de Angulo, Director-General of Mines of Spain.

[1] This genus is found on the forest floor at high elevations from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru.

[5] Tulip orchids are rather large terrestrial and sometimes epiphytic plants with fleshy pseudobulbs longer than 20 cm.

Section Guoloanga includes the yellow and red anguloas such as A. clowesii, A. hohenlohii, A. brevilabris, A. dubia, while section Euanguloa includes the white anguloas such as A. uniflora, A. eburnea, A. virginalis, and A.

[5] There are 13 species of tulip orchids, including 4 apparently of hybrid origin though established in the wild.