Calyptrochilum christyanum [Rchb.f] Summerhayes 1936
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
Photo by Mitrofanov Yury
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Common Name Christy's Calyprochilum [English Orchid Enthusiast and collector of the type 1800's]
Flower Size 3/8" [.9 cm]
Found in Cameroon, Angola, Central African Republic, Congo, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe [Also in Brazil?] in riverine forests and wooded grasslands at elevations around 900 to 1900 meters as a medium sized, monopodial, warm to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte and occasional lithophyte on rock outcroppings with a woody, pendant to horizontal stem carrying numerous, distichous, oblong to strap-shaped, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, fleshy, olive green leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a very short, several [6 to 12] flowered inflorescence that arises opposite of the leaves and carrying lemon scented flowers that open white and turn apricot with age.
Synonyms Angraecum bokoyense De Wild. 1916; *Angraecum christyanum Rchb.f. 1880; Angraecum ivorense A. Chev. 1920; Angraecum malangeanum Kraenzl. 1895; Angraecum marsupiocalcaratum Kraenzl. 1914; Angraecum molonoyei Rolfe 1813; Angraecum mombasaense Rolfe 1897; Angraecum ovalifolium De Wild. 1903; Angraecum pynaertii De Wild. 1903; Angraecum schoellerianum Kraenzl. ex Schweinf. 1894; Angraecum zigzag De Wild. 1903; Calyptrochilum bokoyense (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; Calyptrochilum malangeanum (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1918; Campylocentrum marcalianum Campacci 2005; Calyptrochilum marsupiocalcaratum (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1918; Calyptrochilum mombasaense (Rolfe) Schltr. 1915; Calyptrochilum orientale Schltr. 1915; Calyptrochilum ovalifolium (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; Calyptrochilum pynaertii (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; Calyptrochilum schoellerianum (Kraenzl. ex Schweinf.) Schltr. 1915; Calyptrochilum zigzag (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; Rhaphidorhynchus moloneyi (Rolfe) Finet 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 ok; The Epiphytic Orchids of Malawi Morris 1970 drawing fide; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo ok; Malawi Orchids Vol 1 La Croix 1983 drawing good; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 drawing/photo fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1989 photo/drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 drawing/photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996 photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998 drawing fide; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 photo drawing fide
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