Angraecopsis parviflora (Thouars) Schltr. 1914
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photos by Bart Wursten © and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
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Common Name The Small Flowered Angraecopsis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Reunion and Madagascar in lower montane forests at elevations of 500 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a spreading to pendant, short stem carrying 4 to 6, linear to oblanceolate, falcate, basally twisted, all in one plane, acutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on mostly several, 2 to 8 flowered, held in apical third, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with ovate-triangular floral bracts.
Synonyms Aerobion parviflorum (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; *Angraecum parviflorum Thouars 1822; Epidorkis parviflora (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Listrostachys parviflora (Thouars) S.Moore 1877; Mystacidium pedunculatum Rolfe 1897; Oeceoclades parviflora (Thouars) Lindl. 1833; Saccolabium parviflorum (Thouars) Cordem. 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Angraecum parviflorum drawing fide; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; The Epiphytic Orchids of Malawi Morris 1970 drawing fide; Malawi Orchids Vol 1 La Croix 1983 drawing good; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1986 photo hmm; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing good; African Orchids in the Wild and in Cultivation La Croix 1997; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998 drawing fide; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007 photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2006 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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