!Eurychone rothschildiana (O'Brien) Schltr. 1918
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Common Name Rothschild's Eurychone [Banker and Orchid Enthusiast late 1800's]
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6 cm]
Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Gabon, Zaire and Uganda in shady, moist, evergreen rainforests at elevations of 1100 to 1200 meters as a monopodial, mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short stem, carrying obliquely obovate, unequally obtusely or subacutely bilobed apically leaves blooming on an axillary, pendant, 1 to 4" [2.5 to 10 cm] long, few to several [1 to 7] flowered inflorescence with ovate-triangular, obtuse bracts and showy, white, fragrant cinnamon scented flowers.
Cool to warm temperatures, high humidity and deep shade and regular waterings year round are needed to keep this species happy as well as being mounted on cork or treefern to accomodate the pendant inflorescence.
Synonyms Angraecum rothschildianum O'Brien 1903
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 11 1958 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 10 1963 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 No 12 1968 photo fide; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 #2 1979 photo fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 drawing/photo fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 7 1993 drawing fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 5 1997 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 5 2003 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 12 2006 drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #11 2010 photo fideOrchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016;
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