Angraecum gabonense Summerh. 1954 SECTION Pectinaria [Benth.] Schlechter
Plant and Flower in situ Cameroons Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website
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 virgin rainforests at elevations around 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 spring 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, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006
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