Microterangis hildebrandtii (Rchb.f.) Senghas 1985 Photo by Eric Hunt

Common Name Hildebrandt's Microterangis [German Orchid Collector East Africa Late 1800's]

Flower Size 1/8" [.6 cm]

Found in the Comoros Islands as a minature to small sized, warm growing, epiphytic, monopodial orchid with ligulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, pendant, laxly many flowered inflorescence carrying the tiny, yellow-orange flowers below the plant.

Synonyms Angorchis hildebrandtii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Angraecum hildebrandtii Rchb. f. 1878; Chamaeangis hildebrandtii (Rchb. f.) Garay 1972

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006