Angraecum modicum Summerh. 1958 SECTION Conchoglossum

HOLOTYPE Collection Sheet by Summerhayes 1958 Kew's Plants of the World Website

LATER

Common Name The Modest Angraecum

Flower Size

Found in Liberia in lowland plains at elevations up to 400 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect to arching, elongate stem enveloped by clasping sheaths carrying distichous,, erect-patent, longitudinally rugulose, narrow to linear-lanceolate, unequally bilobed apically, thinnly coriaceous, mid nerve prominent beneath, curved margin leaves that blooms in the later spring on an axillary, 2" [5 cm] long, peduncle thin, .28 to 1" [7 to 2.5 mm] long, rachis fractiflex, thin, 3 flowered inflorescence with lanceoalte, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts

"This species is clearly near A. angustum known from Calabar in southern Nigeria only. It differs in the leaves, the fewer-flowered inflorescences and particularly in the characters of the labellum. In A. angustum the labellum is much narrowewd, a little way above the base and then suddenly widenedso that the front part is nearly cordate; the spur is also much inflated beneath in the basal part and suddenly narrows to the central constricted region. In A modicum on the other hand, there is no constriction in the blade of the labellum which is narrowed gradually to the apex, while the basal part of the spur narrows regularly in the form of a narrow cone from the atachment to the central constriction." Summerhayes 1958

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 13: 81 Summerhayes 1958

Kew Bull. 13: 271 Summerhayes 1958

AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963 as E elliotii

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