Angraecopsis elliptica Summerh. 1951
Photo by © Marcel Lecoufle
Drawing by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent
THROUGH EARLY 
Common Name The Elliptic Angraecopsis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zaire and Uganda in montane forests usually in deep shade at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short, erect, stem carrying 2 ranked, curved, basally conduplicate, flat above, elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, unequally bilobed apically, the shorter lobe absent leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a axillary from the old leafless sheaths below the leaves, 1.6 to 7.2" [4 to 18 cm] long, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1986; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 drawing fide; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide;Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006
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