Angraecopsis gracillima (Rolfe) Summerh. 1937

SIde View Of Flowers Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name or Meaning The Very Graceful Angraecopsis

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Rwanda, Zaire, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia in warmer evergreen forests on moss covered twigs and small banches at elevaions of 1500 to 1850 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short, erect to pendant stem carrying 2 ranked, 2 to 10, linear, often falcate, twisted to be held in one plane, obtusely and bluntly bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a slender, often erect, 4 to 20 flowered, close set, 2 to 8" [5 to 20 cm] long inflorescence with the flowers held in the apical third.

Synonyms *Mystacidium gracillimum Rolfe 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007