Angraecum brevicornu Summerh., Kew Bull. 16: 311 (1962).
Homotypic Synonyms:
Angraecoides brevicornu (Summerh.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka, Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 10 (2013).
Description:
Plants erect with numerous slender, elongated roots amongst the leaves; stems straight or curved, somewhat 2-edged, up to 7 cm long, 1-2 mm in diameter. Leaves in 2 rows, linear, falcate, slightly leathery, often shiny, unequally and acutely bilobed at the apex, 2-5 cm long, 6-11 mm wide. Inflorescences 1 or 2 per node, arising below the roots, single-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acute, 1-2 mm long; pedicellate ovary 7 mm long. Flowers white with a faint pinkish or greenish-pink tinge; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 8-8.5 mm long, 3-3.6 mm wide; petals elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 6.5-7 mm long, 2 mm wide; lip concave, ovate, acuminate, 3-4.5 mm long,3.5 mm wide; spur straight, parallel to the ovary, ca. 2.5 mm long.
Habitat:
Epiphyte in lowland forest and on lemon trees at a mission station; 500-600 m; flowering in March.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus.
Distribution:
NE. Tanzania
References:
WCSP (2017). 'World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. 25.01-2017; http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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