Kylicanthe perezverae Descourv., Stévart & Farminhão 2018 TYPE Drawing by © Hans de Vries and Phytotaxa 373 (2) © Descourv. Stévart & Droissart 2018 - A New Genus of Angraecoid Orchids and the Research Gate Website

LATE EARLIER

Common Name or Meaning The Horned Kylicanthe [refers to its distinctive horn-shaped lip spur]

Flower Size .36 to .44" [9 to 11 mm]

Found in the Nimba Range of Guinea and the Monts des Dan of Ivory Coast, in shrubby vegetation isolated in savannah, but also in forests, where it grows on high branches and on small trees on rocky outcrops on small twigs or on large branches, sometimes forming large populations at elevations of 800 to 1,300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with basal on the stem, unbranched, greyish roots, a very short, .8 to 1.6" [20 to 40 mm] tall, erect stem with a few, held in a fan, oblong to elliptic, suborbicular, margins entire, apex unequally bilobed with or without a notch, lobes acute leaves that blooms in the late spring and earlier summer on a pendent, wiry, emerging at the base of the stem, rachis terete, .8 to 4.6" [20 to 115 mm] long, 1 to 7 flowered inflorescence with amplexicaul bracts and carrying resupinate, whitish to yellowish green flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytotaxa 373 (2) © Descourv. Stévart & Droissart 2018 - A New Genus of Angraecoid Orchids drawing fide;

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