Angraecum gabonense Summerh. 1954 SECTION Pectinaria [Benth.] Schlechter Photo courtesy of Simon Pierce and his Orchid Page

Common Name or Meaning The Gabon Angraecum

Flower Size 3/4" [1.85 cm]

A small to medium sized epiphytic species found in Gabon and Zaire in rainforests at elevations up to 1350 meters with a tufted, slender, branching stem carrying many, distichous, fleshy, linear-lanceolate, to oblong-lanceolate, apically subulate-acuminate, broad leaves that blooms in the winter on a short, single flowered inflorescence and is similar to A. distichum but differs in having narrower linear-lanceolate and acuminate leaves. This species grows in fairly heavy shade, needing high humidity and hot to cool conditions.

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ]; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997;