Diaphananthe bidens (Afzel. ex Sw.) Schltr. 1914

Photo by Guy Ramette Vovan and his Gabon Orchids Website

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Common Name The Two Toothed Diaphananthe

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found from Benin, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, Congo, Equiatorial Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Zaire, Rwanda, Angola and Uganda in rainforests on tree trunks and large branches at elevations of 350 to 1300 meters as a medium sized pendant and warm to cool growing epiphyte with pendant, elongate stems carrying numerous, distichous, ovate or elliptic, unequally and acutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a pendant, many [to 25] flowered, 9" [22 cm] long, racemose inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Angorchis ashantensis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Angorchis monodon (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Angorchis papagayi (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Angraecum acutum Ridl. 1887; Angraecum ashantense Lindl. 1843; Angraecum bakeri Kraenzl. 1889; Angraecum bidens (Afzel. ex Sw.) Rendle 1913; Angraecum monodon Lindl. 1851; Angraecum subfalcifolium De Wild. 1916; Diaphananthe acuta (Ridl.) Schltr. 1918; Diaphananthe ashantensis (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918; Diaphananthe monodon (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918; Diaphananthe mystacidioides (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1918; Diaphananthe papagayi (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1918; Diaphananthe producta (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1918; Diaphananthe subfalcifolia (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918 ; *Limodorum bidens Afzel. ex Sw. 1805; Listrostachys acuta (Ridl.) Rolfe 1897; Listrostachys ashantensis (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1864; Listrostachys bakeri (Kraenzl.) T.Durand & Schinz 1894; Listrostachys bidens (Afzel. ex Sw.) Rolfe 1898; Listrostachys longissima Kraenzl. 1912; Listrostachys monodon (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1864; Listrostachys mystacidioides Kraenzl. 1900; Listrostachys papagayi Rchb. 1865; Mystacidium duemmerianum Kraenzl. 1929; Mystacidium productum Kraenzl. 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 drawing/photo good; Orchids of the Central African Republic - A Provisional Checklist Cribb & Fay 1987; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing/photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 as D acutum; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 drawing/photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 3 2017 photo fide

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