Angraecum birrimense Rolfe 1914 SECTION Arachnangraecum Schlechter
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Common Name or Meaning The Birrim Angraecum [A place in Ghana]
Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]
Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Zimbabwe in evergreen forests as a large to giant sized, hot growing epiphyte at elevations around 50 meters with elongated stems carrying distichous, oblong-lanceolate, unequally and obtusely bilobed, apically leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a one to three flowered inflorescence with large, fragrant orange blossum scented flowers.
Best grown in a pot with a bark mix and a tree fern pole in the middle to which the elongated [to 6'] stem is tied until the roots form, given shade, humidity and hot to cool temperatures.
"This species may be distinguished from the allied A. eichlerianum by the slightly smaller flowers and by the fact that the rounded lateral lobes of the labellum do not project beyond the base of the central apiculus. In general vegetative and floral features the two species are very similar." Summerhayes 1958
Synonyms Eichlerangraecum birrimense (Rolfe) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kew Bull. 13: 274 Summerhayes 1958
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963;
Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970;
An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986;
African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997;
Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995;
Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide;
Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006;
AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #2 2012 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016;
AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #3 2019 photo fide;
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