Plant and Flowers Photos by © Gilles G and The Orchidaceae of Central Africa Website

Common Name The Star Carrying Aerangis

Flower Size

Found in Cameroon, Cogo, Zaire and the Central African Republic in forest undergrowth in dense shade at elevations of 400 to 1100 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 3 to 5, distichous, oblanceolate to oblong, unequally bilobed apically, acute lobed, contracted below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall on a pendent, 4 to 10" [10 to 25 cm] long, 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence with ovate, subacute to obtuse, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and with 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm] between each star-like flower

"The species here described is notable for possesing the largest flowers in the genus Airangis. It is clearly related to A megaphylla but differs in the twice smaller leaves and the flowers is twice as long with a much longer column." Summerhayes 1954

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 8: 589 Summerhayes 1953 publ. 1954 Die Orchideen lieferung 16/17/18 Brieger etal 1986; African Orchids in cultivationa and the wild La Croix 1997; Orchid Digest Vol 70 #4 2006 photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006;

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