Angraecum reygaertii De Wild. 1916 SECTION Conchoglossum

Another Angle Photos by © Droissart and his Orchidaceae of Central Africa Website

Common Name Raygaert's Angraecum [Belgian Orchid Collector late 1800's early 1900's]

Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]

Found in Cameroon, Zaire and Uganda in riverine forests at elevations of 1200 to 1250 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a usually pendent stem carrying distichous, strap-shaped to oblanceolate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Conchograecum reygaertii (De Wild.) Szlach., Grochocka, Oledrz. & Mytnik 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 #6 1980 photo fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986;Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 Photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 photo fide; African Orchids in the wild and cultivation La Croix 1997;

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