Solenangis wakefieldii (Rolfe) P.J.Cribb & J.Stewart 1985 Photo by Akerne Orchids and their Akerne Orchideen Website

Collection Sheet Photo by JSTOR and JSTOR Plant Science Website

Common Name Wakefield's Solenangis

Flower Size .4" [1 cm] wide 3" [7.5 cm] long

Found in Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania in coastal and lowland bush at elevations up to 300 meters as a large sized, hot growing scandent epiphyte with a shiney brown, elongate stem carrying many, lanceolate, unequally and acutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on 1 to several, a along the stem, 1.6 to 2.4 [4 to 6 cm] long, laxly 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms *Angraecum wakefieldii Rolfe 1897; Neocribbia wakefieldii (Rolfe) Szlach. 2003; Tridactyle wakefieldii (Rolfe) Summerh. 1936

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 as Tridactyle wakefieldii photo fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing fide; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and in Cultivation La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 photo fide;

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