Angraecum moandense De Wild. 1916 SECTION Conchoglossum

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Common Name The Moande Angraecum [A town in Togo]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Togo Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Zaire, Tanzania and Uganda at elevations of 1100 to 2100 meters in dense rainforests as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with sometimes branching stems carrying several distichous, slightly fleshy, narrowly strap-shaped, apically unequally bilobed, twisted and clasping basally so all face the same way leaves that blooms in the fall and winter from the stem oppisite the leaves on a 1" [2.5 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms Angraecum chevalieri Summerh. 1936; Aerangis moandensis (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 48-49 Vandeae 1986 as A chevalieridrawing ok; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 as A chevalieri; African Orchids In the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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