Rhipidoglossum densiflorum Summerh. 1945
Plant in situ Cameroon Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Densely Flowered Rhipidoglossum
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Liberia, Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire, Rwanda, Angola and Zambia in high rainfall riverine forests and rainforests at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a leafy, pendant stem carrying distichous, elliptic, oblong ti oblanceolate, unequally and acutely bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on a solitary or paired, .4 to 1.6" [1 to 4 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Diaphananthe densiflora (Summerh.) Summerh. 1960
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing ok; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 as Diaphananthe densiflora; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as Diaphananthe densiflorum drawing fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 as Diaphananthe densiflora; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998 as Diaphananthe densiflorum; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 drawing good
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