Angraecum distichum Lindl. 1835 SECTION Dolabrifolia [Pfitzer] Garay
Photos by © Eric Hunt
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Common Name or Meaning The 2-Rowed Angraecum refers to the ranking of the leaves opposite each other
Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]
Found in Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Central African Republic, Gabon, Cameroon, Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda and Angola on large trees in rain forests as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool and humid growing, Lockhartia-like epiphyte from elevations of 200 [1400] to 1600 meters with leafy stems that form large clumps and carrying distichous, falcately oblong-elliptic, bilaterally compressed leaves that blooms on a very short, axillary, solitary flowered inflorescence with a long-lived, small, fragrant jasmine scented flower occuring in the summer on new leaves and most often more than one.
Cuttings can be made of side branches as they will root out quickly if potted in a standard bark mix with high humidity and fairly heavy shade.
Synonyms Aeranthes distichus (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1864; Angraecum imbricatum (Sw.) Schltr. 1918; Angraecum poppendickianum Szlach. & Olszewski 2001; Dolabrifolia disticha (Lindl.) Szlach. & Romowicz 2007; Dolabrifolia poppendickiana (Szlach. & Olszewski) Szlach. & Romowicz 2007; Epidorkis disticha (Lindl.] Kuntze 1891; Limodorum imbricatum Sw. 1805; Macroplectrum distichum (Lindl.) Finet 1907; Mystacidium distichum (Lindl.) Benth. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo Fide; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Macroplectrum distichum drawing fide;
Kew Bull. 13: 261 Summerhayes 1958
Kew Bull. 13: 261 Summerhayes 1958 as A distichum var grandifolium;
