Rangaeris rhipsalisocia (Rchb.f.) Summerh. 1936
Plant Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Coral Cactus Living Rangaeris
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Siera Leone, Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Togo, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Zaire and Angola in evergreen forests ata elevations of 100 to 200 meters as a minaiture to small sized, hot growing epiphyute with an erect, short stem carrying 4 to 6, arranged in a fan, flattened and with the upper surfaces cohering so that they appear Iris-Like, entire and acute apically leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer arising from below the leaves, spreading to pendant, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence with ovate bracts
Synonyms Aerangis cordatiglandula (De Wild.) Schltr 1918; Aerangis rhipsalisocia (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1918; Angorchis rhipsalisocia (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Angraecum cordatiglandulum De Wild. 1916; *Angraecum rhipsalisocium Rchb.f. 1865; Listrostachys cordatiglandula De Wild. 1914; Listrostachys rhipsalisocia (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1897
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 3 1970 photo; African Orchids in Cultivation and the Wild La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006
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