Kylicanthe cornuata Descourv., Stévart & Droissart 2018

TYPE Drawing Photo by © Vincent Droissart/TYPE Drawing by © Hans de Vries and Phytotaxa 373 (2) © Descourv. Stévart & Droissart 2018 - A New Genus of Angraecoid Orchids and the Research Gate Website

Common Name or Meaning The Horned Kylicanthe [refers to its distinctive horn-shaped lip spur]

Flower Size .24 to .52" [6 to 13 mm]

Found in southwestern Cameroon, Rio Muni (Equatorial Guinea) and Gabon in rainforest, where it is found around inselbergs and sporadically in old secondary forest at elevations of 100 to 1,165 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with numerous, basal on the stem, unbranched, greyish, roots arising from an erect, short stem carrying less than 10, held in a fan, oblong, elliptic, tessellated, margins entire, apex unequally bilobed with or without a notch, lobes subacute, leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on usually 1 to 3, semi-pendent, emerging at the base of the stem, rachis terete, 1.6 to 3.6" [4 to 9.5 cm] long, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with amplexicaul floral bracts and carrying. non-resupinate, yellowish to green, turning orange late in anthesis flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytotaxa 373 (2) © Descourv. Stévart & Droissart 2018 - A New Genus of Angraecoid Orchids Photo/drawing fide;

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