!Rhaesteria eggelingii Summerh. 1966Photo by Tariq Stevart and Phytotaxa 349 (3) 2018 "A revised concept of Rhipidoglossum (Angraecinae, Orchidaceae)" JOÃO N. M. FARMINHÃO, PIERRE MEERTS, PASCAL DESCOURVIÈRES, VINCENT DROISSART, MURIELLE SIMO-DROISSART & TARIQ STÉVART

DrawingDrawing by M A Grierson/Cribb

TYPE Collection Sheet Scan by JSTOR and JSTOR Plant Science Website

Common Name Eggeling's Rhaesteria [German Botanist 20th century]

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Rwanda and Uganda on small savannah trees in grasslands or in the outskirts or within forests at elevations of 1300 to 2300 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with spreading or pendent stems carrying 2 ranked, ovate to ovate-elliptic, fleshy, unequally and minutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a wiry becoming slightly zigzag, 1.2" [3 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Rhipidoglossum eggelingii (Summerh.) Farminhão & Stévart 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1986 drawing fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 drawing fide; Phytotaxa 349 (3) 2018 "A revised concept of Rhipidoglossum (Angraecinae, Orchidaceae)" JOÃO N. M. FARMINHÃO, PIERRE MEERTS, PASCAL DESCOURVIÈRES, VINCENT DROISSART, MURIELLE SIMO-DROISSART & TARIQ STÉVART photo fide

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