Ancistrorhynchus ovatus Summerh. 1944 Photo by © Eerica Schulz and her Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The Ovate Ancistrorhynchus

Flower Size

Found in The Congo, Gabon, Zaire, Central African Republic and Uganda in evergreen forests at elevations of 1200 to 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing pendent to ascending epiphyte with an arcuate stem carrying up to 12, linear, unequally bilobed apically, each lobe subacute to obscurely 2 toothed, basally twisted , articulate to imbricate basally leaves that blooms in the later spring on a capitate, .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, , many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate to ligulate, acute, as long to longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 drawing good

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