!Auxopus kamerunensis Schltr.1905

Photo © by Segerback

Common Name The Cameroon Auxopus

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Guinea, Gabon, Cameroon and the Central African Republic in rainforests in dense shade as a small sized, hot growing mycoheterotrophic leafless terrestrial with a very slender, yellowish-brown stem with 2 to 3, minute scale-like bracts and blooms in the winter on a many flowered, corymb-like inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Nigeria Segerback 1983 photo fide

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