Angraecum angustipetalum Rendle 1913 SECTION Conchoglossum

Plant and Flowers in situ Cameroon

Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Narrow Petal Angraecum

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire and Malawi in dense evergreen forests as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a pendant, straight to curved stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 ranked, ovate to elliptic, very unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on 1 to 2, below the roots, single flowered inflorecence with lanceolate, acute bracts

Synonyms Angraecoides angustipetala (Rendle) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013; Angraecum boonei De Wild. 1916; Conchograecum angustipetalum (Rendle) Szlach., Grochocka, Oledrz. & Mytnik 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 photo fide; The Epiphytic Orchids of Malawi Morris 1970; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; African Orchids In cultivation and the Wild La Croix 1997; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #2 2012 photo fide;

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