Angraecopsis breviloba Summerh. 1945 Photo by Ron Hanko and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Short-Lobed Angraecopsis

Flower Size 1/8" [5mm]

found in Kenya and Tanzania in montane forests often near streams and in citrus plantations at elevations of 1300 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, monopodial epiphyte with a very short stem carrying 4, deciduous, ligulate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an patent to ascending , 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm] long, axillary, flexuous, angled, few to many flowered inflorescence with obtuse or acute sshporter than the ovary floral bracts.

"This species and the allied A. amaniensis are characterised by the nature of the pollinarium in which there is a single ob- long viscidium to which the pollinia are attached by short stipites which arise close to one another, are then bent outward rather like knees, and converge again to ap- proach one another at their apices where the pollinia are attached. So far, only A. parviflora has been recorded as possessing a common viscidium to the two stipites, but in this species the pollinarium is other- wise very different. A. parviflora, however, has the petals broadly triangular with the anticous margin united to the dorsal sepals and a trilobed lip with quite long lateral lobes." Summerhayes 1945

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 11: 256 Summerhayes 1945 Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 photo ok; Manual of Cultivated Orchids, Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1986 drawing/photo fide; Miniature Orchids Northern 1988; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing fide; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996 photo good; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 photo fide

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