Tridactyle fimbriatipetala (De Wild.) Schltr., Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 144 (1918).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Angraecum fimbriatipetalum De Wild., Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 5: 186 (1916).
Description:
Plant with long narrow stems, up to 50 cm long. Leaves narrowly elliptic or elliptic, obtuse, with rounded lobes at the apex, 8-12 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide. Inflorescences 8-10 cm long, 10- to 15-flowered. Flowers pale with glandular perianth; sepals elliptic, 5-6 mm long, 2 mm wide; petals with fimbriate margins, 5 mm long, 1 mm wide; lip with acute auricles near the base and 3-lobed about the middle, side lobes as long as the midlobe, laciniate at the apex, mid-lobe narrowly triangular, laciniate, in total 8-11 mm long, 8 mm wide; spur slender, 2 cm long.
Habitat:
Epiphyte in dense forest.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Notes:
This species is unique in the genus in having fimbriate petals.
Distribution:
C. DR Congo
References:
World Checklist of Monocotyledons. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.kew.org/wcsp/monocots/ accessed 21.03.2017
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