Ancistrorhynchus tenuicaulis Summerh 1953 publ. 1954

Plant and Flowers Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

Common Name or MeaningThe Delicate Inflorescence Ancistrorhynchus

Flower Size .2" [3mm]

Found in Gabon, Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi in evergreen forests at elevations around 900 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short ascending to arcuate stem enveloped by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying linear, clustered towards the apex, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on a short, capitate, densely few to many flowered inflorescence with elliptic, obtuse bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Floira of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Cribb 1989; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006