Mystacidium flanaganii (Bolus) Bolus 1905 Photos by © Lourens Grobler
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Common Name Flanagan's Mystacidium [South African Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]
Flower Size .3 to .4" [8 to 10 mm]
Found in Cape Province, Natal and Transvaal States of South Africa in montane and temperate forests at lower elevations as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with short stems carrying 3 to 5, lorate to elliptic, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on 1 to 5, pendant, .8 to 1.8" [2 to 4.5 cm] long, lax, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence and carrying nocturnally sweetly scented flowers.
Synonyms *Angraecum flanaganii Bolus 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 7 1958 Drawing as Angraecum flaniganii; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo; African Orchids In the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008;
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