Angraecum dives Rolfe 1897 SECTION Boryangraecum Schlechter Photo by Bob Campbell ©,

Part SunHot Fall

Common Name The Rich-Blooming Angraecum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Kenya and Tanzania on coral and other rocks near the coast and coastal woodlands, Baobab trees at elevations of sealevel to 80 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a short stem carrying 2 to 6, linear, leathery leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, 1 to 10" [2.5 to 25 cm] long, 8 to 25 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide; African Orchids in the wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997

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