Ancistrorhynchus recurvus Finet 1907
Photos by © Vincent Droissart and The Orchidaceae of Central Africa Website
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Common Name The Recurved Ancistrorhynchus
Flower Size
Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Liberia, Nigeria, Guinea Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Zaire and Uganda in evergreen rainforests at elevations of 1100 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying several, linear, unequally bilobed apically, each lobe bidentate leaves that blooms in the later spring on a short, basal inflorescence with a dense head of many flowers
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen lieferung 16/17/18 Brieger etal 1986; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae part 3 Cribb 1989; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 drawing fide; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide;
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