Aerangis flexuosa (Ridl.) Schltr. 1918

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Common Name The Scandent Hederorkis [refers to its climbing habit]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found on Sao Tome at elevations around 730 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 3 to 5, oblong, cuneate-attenuate basally, unequal and bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an ascending, slender, flexuous, [6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, provided with 2 sheaths at the base, many flowered inflorescence with brioadly ovate-obtuse, cucullate longer than the poedicel floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

Synonyms Aerangis elegans (Rolfe) Dandy 1944; Angraecum elegans Rolfe 1891; Angraecum flexuosum (Ridl.) Rolfe 1897; *Radinocion flexuosum Ridl. 1887

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Bol. Soc. Brot. 5: 200 Ridley 1887 as Radinocion flexuosum

Bol. Soc. Brot. 9: 140 Rolfe 1891 as Angraecum elegans;

Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 139 Rolfe 1897 as Angraecum flexuosum;

* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 116 Schlechter 1918

Cat. Vasc. Pl. S. Tomé: 334 Dandy 1944 as Aerangis elegans;

Kew Bulletin Vol 22 No 3: 491 P F Hunt 1968

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