Nephrangis bertauxiana Szlach. & Olszewski 2001

Plant and Inflorescence in situ Cameroon Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Bertaux's Nephrangis [French Director of Jardin du Luxembourgh current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Gabon in woodland trees on branches at elevations of 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pendulous, elongate, slender stems sometimes branching and carrying in the apical part, widely spaces,terete but flattened, often curved, acute leaves that blooms in the fall on an opposite the leaves, .4" [1 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Nephrangis filiformis var. bertauxiana (Szlach. & Olszewski) R.Rice 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Angreacoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006

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