Angraecum firthii Summerh. 1958 SECTION Afrangraecum Photo by © John Varigos and his Orchid webpage

Common Name Firth's Angraecum [Kenyan Discoverer of Specis 1900's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya and Uganda in warmer evergreen forests at elevations of 1450 to 1600 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slightly flattened stems carrying dark green, rather thin, oblanceolate to oblong, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, 1.2 to 1.4" [3 to 3.5 cm] long, slender, 3 to 5 flowered, slightly fractiflex inflorescnece with broadly ovate, obtuse floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Orchids of Kenya Stewart and Campbell 1996; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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