Angraecum conchiferum Lindl. 1836 SECTION Arachnangraecum Schlechter Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Shell-Like Lip Angraecum

Flower Size 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm]

Found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cape Province, Natal and Transvaal South Africa in forest on isolated hills and mountains at elevations of 800 to 2400 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with flattened roots with a rough warty surface, a flattened often branching stem enveloped by overlapping black spotted leaf sheaths and carrying 2 ranked, towards the apex, linear, unequally bilobed apically, often held in one plane leaves that blooms in the spring on a slender, opposite the leaf, [1 to 1.1" [2.5 to 2.7 cm], 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with nonresupinate flowers

Synonyms Angorchis conchifera (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Angraecum scabripes Kraenzl. 1902; Angraecum verrucosum Rendle 1895; Mystacidium verrucosum (Rendle) Rolfe 1897

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982; Malawi Orchids La Croix 1983; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; African Orchids in the wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans & Campbell 2006