Angraecum decipiens Summerh. 1966 SECTION Boryangraecumn
Photo by Bob Campbell ©,
Drawing by © M A Greirson
Common Name The Deceiving Angraecum
Flower Size .1 to .2" [2 to 5 mm]
Found in Kenya and Tanzania as a twig epiphyte in small trees and bushes in very shady habitats at elevations of 1600 to 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect, short stem carrying in a small fan, 2 to 4, linear or ligulate, falcate, rather fleshy leaves that blooms in the spring on a simple, curved, 8 to 18" [20 to 45 cm] long, 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts carrying tiny flowers
" The species is somewhat aberrant in that the outside margins of the cleft rostellum are shortly produced upwards and not quite rounded as in most species of the genus. In other respects, including the pollinaria, the species falls clearly into the section Boryangraecum. In general appearance the species is reminiscent of the genus Angraecopsis but the perianth shows none of the characteriastics of that genus." Summerhayes 1966
Synonyms Angraecopsis decipiens (Summerh.) R.Rice Rice 2005; Lesliegraecum decipiens (Summerh.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 20: 189 Summerhayes 1966
Kew Bulletin Vol 22 No 3: 492 P F Hunt 1968
Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968;
An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986;
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing fide;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide;
Prelim. Checklist & Survey Subtrib. Aerangidinae (Orchidac.): 19 Rice 2005
Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 17 Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
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