Ancistrorhynchus tenuicaulis Summerh 1953 publ. 1954

Plant and Flowers Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

Common Name or MeaningThe Delicate Inflorescence Ancistrorhynchus

Flower Size .2" [3mm]

Found in Gabon, Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi in evergreen forests at elevations around 900 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short ascending to arcuate stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying linear, clustered towards the apex, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, capitate, densely few to many flowered inflorescence with elliptic, obtuse, shorter to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carryiung ascending white flowers.

"Allied to A parviflorus, A. straussii and A schumannii but A tenuicaulis differs in the much elongated stem and this separates it easily from A strausii, other two species it differs in the shape and size of the leaves and in floral details." Summerhayes 1954

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 8: 590 Summerhayes 1953 publ. 1954 Die Orchideen lieferung 16/17/18 Brieger etal 1986; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae part 3 Cribb 1989; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998 drawing/photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------