!Podangis dactyloceras [Rchb.f]Schltr. 1918
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Common Name The Finger-Like Bent Spur Podangis
Flower Size 1/8" x 1/2" [2mm x 7 mm]
A mini-fan equitant from Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire with glasslike flowers that likes hot to warm temps and is found in evergreen rainforests often near waterfalls or rivers at altitudes of 750 to 1950 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with a short stem enveloped completely by conduplicate leaf bases carrying 4 to 8 distichous, falcate, bilaterally compressed, acute, fleshy leaves that blooms on a axillary, 2" [5 cm] long, several [5 to 20] flowered, subumbellate inflorescence that are shorter than the leaves with simultaneously opening, longlasting flowers all occuring in the spring through fall. Best grown in a pot with a coarse mix to provide excellent drainage, hot to warm, humid, semi-shaded conditions and a definite drying out between waterings.
Synonyms Angorchis dactyloceras (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Angraecum forcipatum (Kraenzl.) Engl. 1908; *Listrostachys dactyloceras Rchb.f. 1865; Listrostachys forcipata Krzl. 1894; Listrostachys saxicola Kraenzl. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 2 1979 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 #7 1984 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 photo/drawing; A Culture Manual for Angraecoid Orchid Growers Hillerman 1992 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing/photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 drawing fide; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 5 2004 photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 11 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 11 2009 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #7 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #6 2017 photo fide;
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