Ancistrorhynchus akeassiae Pérez-Vera 2003
Photos by © Rogier Van Vugt and his P Base Orchid Photo Website
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Common Name Ake Assi's Ancistrorhynchus [Ivory Coast Botanist and original collector of species current]
Flower Size 1/8"
Found in Ivory Coast, Liberia and Nigeria in shady humid forests at elevations of 100 to 500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect to pendent, curved stem carrying 2 ranked, narrowly lanceolate, rigid, unequally bilobed apically, the longer lobe narrow and pointed , the shorter lobe absent leaves that blooms in the later spring on an axillary, racemose, .5 to .56" [1.2 to 1.4 cm] long, 7 to 10 flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006
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