Aerangis kirkii (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1918

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Common Name Kirk's Aerangis [English Council in Zanzibar and orchid enthusiast 1900's]

Flower Size 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm]

This species occurs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South African coastal bush and riverine forests on shrubs and and small trees at elevations up to 450 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte in deep shade and high humidity with a short stem carrying 2 to 7, dark green to gray green sometimes with a reddish tinge, oblanceolate, unequally bilobed apically, rounded to acute leaves that blooms in the fall on a spreading to pendant, to 7" [17 cm] long, 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence carrying apical flower first which is generally larger than the rest and the flowers are white strongly tinged with salmon

Synonyms Angraecum apiculatum var. kirkii (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1885; *Angraecum bilobum var. kirkii Rchb.f. 1882; Angraecum kirkii (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1897

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Aerangis biloba var kirkii; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Miniature Orchids Northern 1988; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids Of Kenya Stewart 1996; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006