Aerangis calantha (Schltr.) Schltr. 1918 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name or Meaning The Beuatifully Blooming Aerangis

Flower Size 3/4" [2.1 cm]

Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congop, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Zaire, Tanzania, Uganda and Angola in primary forest in deep shade on small twigs and branches at elevations of 100 to 1650 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphtye with a very short, woody stem carrying 2 to 6 2 ranked, linear, often falcate, dark green with a few black dots, unequally and shortly bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an axillary or below the leaves, spreading to pendant, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, 2 to 10 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Aerangis parvula Schltr. 1919; Aerangis roseocalcarata (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; Aerangis sankuruensis (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; *Angraecum calanthum Schltr. 1905; Angraecum roseocalcaratum De Wild 1916; Angraecum sankuruense De Wild.1916

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007