Ancistrorhynchus cephalotes (Rchb.f.) Summerh. 1944 Photo courtesy of Akerne Orchids

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Common Name The Head Shaped Ancistrohynchus

Flower Size 3/8" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Liberia, Tierra Leone and Togo in evergreen forests as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying several, linear, slightly folded at the base, bilobed apically with erose lobes leaves that blooms in the fall on a densely many flowered inflorescence enveloped by large chaffy bracts and carries a ball of scented flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; African Orchids in the Wild and in Cultivation La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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