Angraecum gabonense Summerh. 1954 SECTION Pectinaria [Benth.] Schlechter
Plant and Flower in situ Cameroons Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Gabon Angraecum
Flower Size 3/4" [1.85 cm]
A small to medium sized, cool growing epiphytic species found in Gabon and Zaire in virgin rainforests at elevations around 1350 meters with a tufted, slender, branching stem carrying many, distichous, fleshy, linear-lanceolate, to oblong-lanceolate, apically subulate-acuminate, broad leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence.
This species grows in fairly heavy shade, needing high humidity and cool conditions.
Similar to A. distichum but differs in having narrower linear-lanceolate and acuminate leaves.
"This is a delightful little species of SECTION Pectinaria, clearly allied to A pungens and A. doratophyllum but smaller and more delicate in its vegetative parts, The flowers also are smaller with a much shorter, swollen spur. The leaves show curious false articulation near the apex found also in A. pungens aswell as in several species of Sarcanthus but the feature is not so prominent in the present species." Summerhayes 1954
Synonyms Afropectinariella gabonensis (Summerh.) M.Simo & Stévart 2018; Pectinariella gabonensis (Summerh.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 8: 586 Summerhayes 1953 publ. 1954
Kew Bull. 13: 262 Summerhayes 1958 Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger, Senghas 1985 drawing pollina only; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 drawing/photo fide; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #12 2010 photo fide;
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