Angraecum geerinckianum Stévart & Jecmenica 2017 SECTION AfrangraecumTYPE photos by © Tariq Stévart

Part Shade Warm Fall

Common Name Geerinck's Angraecum [Belgian Botanist 1945 - 2016]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Known from Massif du Chaillu in Gabon in dense, humid forest at the bottom of the deep valley at elevations around 600 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a non-branching stem carrying alternate, constricted, broadly elliptic,unequally obliquely bilobed apically, 9 nerved with a conspicuous midvein leaves that blooms in fall on horizontal, peduncle to 4" [10 cm] long, successively single over years, to 10 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Conchograecum geerinckianum (Stévart & Jecmenica) Szlach., Grochocka, Oledrz. & Mytnik 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Phytotaxa 323: 147 2017 Taxonomy of Atlantic Central African orchids, 6: three new species of Angraecum sect. Afrangraecum (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae) from Gabon and Săo Tomé VLADIMIR JE?MENICA1, VINCENT DROISSART1, ERIC AKOUANGOU4, CHRISTELLE NYANGALA, BAKITA BAKITA, JEAN PHILIPPE BITEAU5 & TARIQ STÉVART 2017

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