Chamaeangis vesicata (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Guy Ramette-Vovan of Gabon

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Common Name The Bladder Chamaeangis [refers to the swollen apice of the spur]

Flower Size 1/8" [.6 cm]

Found in West Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda as a miniature sized, pendant, warm to cool growing epiphyte requiring high humidity and shade in riverine and submontane forests at elevations of 1100 to 1800 meters with a 4" long arching to pendant stem carrying dull bluish-green, linear to falcate, curved, leathery or fleshy, unequally and acutely bilobed apically leaves from which arises in the spring and fall on an axillary, pendant, 16" [40 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with sweetly fragrant, fleshy paired flowers.

Synonyms Angorchis vesicata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891 ; *Angraecum vesicatum Lindl. 1843; Chamaeangis kloetzlianum Szlach. & Olszewski 2001 ; Listrostachys vesicata (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1865

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996;