Angraecum moandense De Wild. 1916

SECTION Angraecoides [Cordem.] Garay Photo courtesy of © Elisabeth Kerschbaum of Austria

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Common Name The Moande Angraecum [A town in Togo]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Togo Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Zaire, Tanzania and Uganda at elevations of 1100 to 1200 meters in rainforests as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with sometimes branching stems carrying several distichous, slightly fleshy, narrowly strap-shaped, apically unequally bilobed, twisted and clasping basally so all face the same way leaves that blooms from the stem oppisite the leaves on a 1" [2.5 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms Angraecum chevalieri Summerh. 1936; Aerangis moandensis (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on African Orchids In the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997