Diaphananthe dorotheae (Rendle) Summerh. 1949
TYPE Drawing by © Rendle
TYPE Collection Sheet © by Talbot
Common Name Dorothea's Diaphananthe
Flower Size
Found in southern Nigeria as a small sized epiphyte with a woody stem carrying coriaceous, multinerved, cuneate-oblong to cuneate-ligulate, asymetrically acute apically leaves that blooms on numerous, axillary, 2 per axil, as long as the leaf, 6.2 to 10 [15.5 to 25 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with amplexicaul, cup shaped, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts
"This speccies is intermediate between D. pellucida and D. bidens The column structure and the pollinarium of Rendle's species are just as in the two species mentioned. In its short tufted habit and large oblanceolate leaves the species agrees with D. pellucida, but in its short spreading inflorescences and the shape of the lip it resembles closely D. bidens." Summerhayes 1949
Synonyms Angraecum dorotheae Rendle 1913; Rangaeris dorotheae (Rendle) Summerh. 1936
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Cat. Pl. Oban: 107 Rendle 1913 as Angraecum dorotheae
Fl. W. Trop. Afr. 2: 450 1936 as Rangeris dorotheae
* Kew Bull. 4: 441 Summerhayes 1949 fide
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