Angraecum reygaertii De Wild. 1916 SECTION Conchoglossum
Photos by © Droissart and his Orchidaceae of Central Africa Website
Common Name Raygaert's Angraecum [Belgian Orchid Collector late 1800's early 1900's]
Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]
Found in Cameroon, Zaire and Uganda in riverine forests at elevations of 1200 to 1250 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a usually pendent stem carrying distichous, strap-shaped to oblanceolate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence.
"Characterised by the long broad leaves, the rather large flowers (sepals to1.8" [ 4.5 cm] long) and nearly straight spur about 2.8" [7 cm]." Summerhayes 1958
Synonyms Conchograecum reygaertii (De Wild.) Szlach., Grochocka, Oledrz. & Mytnik 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kew Bull. 13: 276 Summerhayes 1958
AOS Bulletin Vol 49 #6 1980 photo fide;
Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid
Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986;
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 Photo fide;
The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 photo fide;
African Orchids in the wild and cultivation La Croix 1997;
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