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, cool to cold growing epiphyte with sometimes branching stems carrying several distichous, slightly fleshy, narrowly strap-shaped, apically unequally bilobed, twisted and basally clasping so all face the same way leaves that blooms in the fall and winter from the stem opposite the leaves on a 1" [2.5 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers
Synonyms Angraecoides moandensis (De Wild.) E.M.Pessoa & M.Alves 2016; Angraecum chevalieri Summerh. 1936; Aerangis moandensis (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; Conchograecum moandense (De Wild.) Szlach., Grochocka, Oledrz. & Mytnik 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger, Senghas 1985 as A chevalieri drawing fide; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A chevalieri; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 as A chevalieri; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 drawingfide; African Orchids In the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 as A chevalieri drawing good; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #2 2012 photo fide;
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