Cyrtorchis seretii (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918 SECTION Cyrtorchis

Collection Sheet by © P Simo and Kew's Plants of the World Website

Common Name Seret's Cyrtorchis [Belgian collector of the type later 1800's early 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Gabon, the DR Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda and Eritrea at elevations around 1450 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte that blooms in the spring

"C. seretii is characterized by the narrow leaves the medium sized flowers, the markedly but broadly beaked anther and the long indurated part of the pollinarium, which is as long as or distinctly longer than the hyaline parts." Summerhayes 1960

Synonyms *Angraecum seretii De Wild. 1916

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bull. Jard. Bot. État Bruxelles 5: 191 De Wild. 1916 as Angraecum seretii

*Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 132 Schelchter 1918

Kew Bull. 14: 152 Summerhayes 1960

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