Angraecopsis parviflora (Thouars) Schltr. 1914. Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Colony in situ Photos courtesy of Bart Wursten © and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
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Common Name The Small Flowered Angraecopsis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Reunioun and Madagascar in lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a spreading to pendant, short stem carrying 4 to 6, linear to oblanceolate, falcate, basally twisted, all in one planr, acutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on mostly several, 2 to 8 flowered, held in apical third, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with ovate triangular floral bracts.
Synonyms Aerobion parviflorum (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; *Angraecum parviflorum Thouars 1822; Epidorchis parviflora (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Listrostachys parviflora (Thouars) S.Moore 1877; Mystacidium pedunculatum Rolfe 1897; Oeceoclades parviflora (Thouars) Lindl. 1833; Saccolabium parviflorum (Thouars) Cordem. 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Malawi Orchids La Croix 1983; African Orchids in the Wild and in Cultivation La Croix 1997; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007;
