Ancistrorhynchus serratus Summerh. 1966
Photos by © Vincent Droissart and The Orchidaceae of Central Africa Website
TYPE Drawing by © Summerhayes and Kew's Plants of the World Website
Common Name The Serrate Ancistrorhynchus [refers to the serrate apex of the leaves]
Flower Size
Found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo and The Gulf of Guinea Islands in evergreen forests at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a fairly elongate, occasionally branched stem carrying several, linear, unequally bilobed apically, each lobe irregularly toothed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, basal inflorescence with a dense head of several to many flowers
" The most striking character of this species is the short irregular serration of the bilobed apices of the leaves. In A capitatus the teeth on the much larger leaves are much more distant and acute and moreover occur also on the uppermost part of the sides of the leaves." Summerhayes 1966
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 20: 195 Summerhayes 1966
Die Orchideen lieferung 16/17/18 Brieger etal 1986;
African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997;
Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006
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