!Rhaesteria eggelingii Summerh. 1966
Photo by Tariq Stevart and Phytotaxa 349 (3) 2018 "A revised concept of Rhipidoglossum (Angraecinae, Orchidaceae)" JOÃO N. M. FARMINHÃO, PIERRE MEERTS, PASCAL DESCOURVIÈRES, VINCENT DROISSART, MURIELLE SIMO-DROISSART & TARIQ STÉVART
Drawing by M A Grierson/Cribb
Scan by JSTOR and JSTOR Plant Science Website
Common Name Eggeling's Rhaesteria [German Botanist 20th century]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Rwanda and Uganda on small savannah trees in grasslands or in the outskirts or within forests at elevations of 1300 to 2300 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with spreading or pendent stems carrying 2 ranked, ovate to ovate-elliptic, fleshy, unequally and minutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a wiry becoming slightly zigzag, 1.2" [3 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence
"This remarkable plant is characterized especially by the unition of the sepals and petals in their lower part. This feature is found among African monopodial orchids only in the genus Taeniophyllum, which however is entoirely leafless and has a very short stem. In its broad convex labellum more or less embracing the column its general habit and ite separate pollinaria the genus is reminiscent of Angraecum but the rostellum is elongates and somewhat resembles a hammer, from which feature the generic name is derived." Summerhayes 1966
Synonyms Rhipidoglossum eggelingii (Summerh.) Farminhão & Stévart 2018
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 20: 191 Summerhayes 1966
Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1986 drawing fide;
Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing fide;
Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 drawing fide;
Phytotaxa 349 (3) 2018 "A revised concept of Rhipidoglossum (Angraecinae, Orchidaceae)" JOÃO N. M. FARMINHÃO, PIERRE MEERTS, PASCAL DESCOURVIÈRES, VINCENT DROISSART, MURIELLE SIMO-DROISSART & TARIQ STÉVART as Rhipidoglossum eggelingii photo fide
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