Rhipidoglossum cuneatum (Summerh.) Garay 1972 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Common Name The Cuneate Rhipidoglossum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Central African Republic, Cameroon and Uganda in rainforests at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying about 5, linear to oblanceolatae, unequally bilobed apically, rounded lobed, basally twisted leaves that blooms in the spring on a 3.6" [9 cm] long, laxly 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence with conical, obtuse, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

"This rather charming species is similar to R pulchellum and may be distinguished from ,a href=" by the smaller flowers, the cuneate-quadrate labellum and a thinner spur. From R subsimplex it differs in the longer leaves, the slightly larger flowers, the longer spur, and by the petals that are orbicular with the apex rounded to obtuse and differs from R xanthopollinium by the shorter stem, the cuneate-quadrate labellum with a basal callus and the longer and thinner spur." Summerhayes 1960

Synonyms *Diaphananthe cuneata Summerh. 1960

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Kew Bull. 14: 141 Summerhayes 1960 as Diaphananthe cuneata

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 as Diaphananthe cuneata;

Angraecoid Orchids Herman, Stewwart and Campbell 2006;

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