Rhipidoglossum bilobatum (Summerh.) Szlach. & Olszewski 2001 Specimen Scan © by The JSTOR Plant Science Website

Common Name The Two Lobed Rhipidoglossum

Flower Size

Found in Gabon, Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda in humid forests and thickets at elevations of 1300 to 2200 meters as a medium szied, warm to cold growing epiphyte with an elongate, usually pendent stem carrying to 20, basally twisted so as to all lie in one plane, elliptic to oblong-ellitic, Unequally bilobed apically leaves with rounded lobes that blooms in the fall on usually several, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, densely 15 to 30 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Diaphananthe bilobata (Summerh.) F.N.Rasm. 1974; Sarcorhynchus bilobatus Summerh. 1945

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing ok; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 48-49 Vandeae 1986 drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 photo fide

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