Manniella gustavi Rchb.f. 1881

Photo courtesy of Aluka

Plant? in situ Cameroon Photo by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

Common Name Gustav's Manniella

Flower Size 1/8" [.2 cm]

Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Siera Leone, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Gabon, Gulf ogf Guinea Islands, Zaire, Uganda and Tanzania at elevations of 1100 to 1200 meters on forest floors as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 4 to 6, glabrous, ovate, shortly acuminate, deep green, usually white spotted, narrows into the channeled, elongate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, to 18" [45 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorecence.

Synonyms Manniella gustavi var. picta De Wild. 1903

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984;

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