Angraecum sanfordii P.J.Cribb & B.J.Pollard, Kew Bull. 57: 653 (2002).
Description:
Pendent epiphytic herb with an elongated monopodial leafy stem, 8 - 25 cm long, usually with the apical part ascending; roots adventitious, elongate, produced singly opposite the leaves in the lower part of the stem, emerging through the leaf bases. Leaves coriaceous, oblong to slightly obovate, 6.5 - 17 x 1.3 - 2.7 cm, unequally roundly bilobed at the apex, the smaller lobe oblique, articulated at the base to an ancipitous sheathing leaf base. Inflorescences several, produced through the sheathing leaf bases slightly above the nodes, 1 - 2-flowered, 4 - 5 (- 7) cm long; peduncle slender, wiry; bracts papery, ovate, 2 - 4 mm long, acute, sheathing at the base. Flowers white, fragrant by day; pedicel and ovary crozier-shaped, 1.1 - 1.3 cm long. Sepals linear-lanceolate, 2 - 3 x 0.3 - 0.35 cm, acuminate, the lateral oblique. Petals obliquely linear-lanceolate, 1.9 - 2.7 x 0.3 - 0.4 cm, acuminate. Lip porrect, lanceolate, 1.6 x 0.4 cm, acuminate; callus in throat of lip raised, linear; spur erect- ascending, cylindrical, 3.5 - 5.3 cm long, slightly inflated towards the apex. Column fleshy, very short, 2 mm long, with two prominent slightly deflexed oblong flanges at the apex; pollinia ovoid, deeply bifid.
Habitat:
An epiphyte occuring in submontane and montane forest; 800–2,000 m alt.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
Cameroon
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 28.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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