!Listrostachys pertusa (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1852
Photo by Guy Ramette Vovan and his Gabon Orchids Website
Photos by Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
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Common Name The Pierced or Carved Listrostachys [Refers to the deep depression in the lip, surrounded by green]
Flower Size .22" [6mm]
Found in Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Principe, Sierra Leone and Zaire in evergreen forests at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte with a short stem carrying 9 to 15 distichous, close set, linear, folded, very stiff, almost equally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves from which an axillary, 12" [30 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with the flowers in two opposing rows occuring in the early summer.
Synonyms Angorchis pertusa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891 ; *Angraecum pertusum Lindl. 1836; Listrostachys behnickiana Kraenzl. 1909; !Listrostachys jenischiana Rchb. f. 1852
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Listrostachys jenischiana; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 2 1979 photo fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 drawing/photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 drawing fide/photo good; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 89 #2 2020 photo fide
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