Cyrtorchis henriquesiana (Ridl.) Schltr. 1918 SECTION Homocoleticon Sumerhayes
Photos by © G Kamdem and The Orchidaceae of Central Africa Website
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Common Name Henrique's Cyrtorchis
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Found in Ghana, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, gulf of Guinea Islands and Zaire in rainforests, secondary forests and in cocoa plantations at elevations of 70 to 600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with an erect, stem carrying many, linear, conduplicate, thickened, somewhat rounded beneath leaves that blooms in the late summer fall and winter on an axillary, shorter than the leaves, 4 to 7" [10 to 17.5 cm] long, to 6 flowered inflorescence carrying white flowers that yellow with age.
"Characterized by the very long narrow leaves, not exceeding .24" [6 mm] in breadth. Vegetatively the species closely resembles C. aschersonii which, however, has quite a different viscidium and belongs to sect. Cyrtorchis. C henriquesiana has small flowers with the sepals about .4" [1 cm] long and with a somewhat "S" shaped spur about 1.2" [3 cm] long." Summerhayes 1960
Synonyms Aerangis henriquesiana (Ridl.) Schltr. 1918; *Angraecum henriquesianum Ridl. 1887; Homocolleticon henriquesiana (Ridl.) Szlach. & Olszewski 2001; Listrostachys henriquesiana (Ridl.) Rolfe 1897
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kew Bull. 14: 155 Summerhayes 1960
Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006;
Phytotaxa 267 (3) 173 Droissat & Azandi 2016 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 photo fide;
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