Angraecopsis breviloba Summerh. 1945 Photo courtesy of Ben Berliner and Willow Pond Orchids

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Common Name or Meaning The Short-Lobed Angraecopsis

Flower Size 1/8" [5mm]

A miniature, cool to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte found in Kenya and Tanzania in montane forests often near streams and in citrus plantations at elevations of 1300 to 2400 meters requiring deep shade, with a very short stem carrying 4, deciduous, ligualte, unequally bilobed apically leaves that has 2 to 2 3/4" [5 to 7 cm] long, axillary, flexuous, angled racemes that are ascending or pendant with obtuse or acute sheathing bracts and carrying a few to many flowers that occur in the summer and fall.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Miniature Orchids Northern 1988; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Manual of Cultivated Orchids, Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006