Angraecum gabonense Summerh. 1954 SECTION Pectinaria [Benth.] Schlechter
Plant and Flower in situ Cameroons Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Gabon Angraecum
Flower Size 3/4" [1.85 cm]
A small to medium sized, cool growing epiphytic species found in Gabon and Zaire in virgin rainforests at elevations around 1350 meters with a tufted, slender, branching stem carrying many, distichous, fleshy, linear-lanceolate, to oblong-lanceolate, apically subulate-acuminate, broad leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence.
This species grows in fairly heavy shade, needing high humidity and cool conditions.
Similar to A. distichum but differs in having narrower linear-lanceolate and acuminate leaves.
Synonyms Afropectinariella gabonensis (Summerh.) M.Simo & Stévart 2018; Pectinariella gabonensis (Summerh.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger, Senghas 1985 drawing pollina only; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 drawing/photo fide; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #12 2010 photo fide;
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