Diaphananthe garayana Szlach. & Olszewski 2001

Inflorescence

Plant Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

Part shadeWarm TO CoolSpring

Common Name or Meaning Garay's Diaphananthe [American Botanist and Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size

Found in Cameroon as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem growing horizontally and carrying 2 ranked, to 12, fan-shaped, oblanceolate, unequally bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary pendant, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, 10 to 25 flowered inflorescence with small bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical EAst Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006