Rhipidoglossum laticalcar (J.B.Hall) Senghas 1986

Holotype Collection Sheet by J B Hall

LATE

Common Name The broad spur Rhipidoglosasum

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Ghana and Nigeria at elevations of 400 to 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing ewpiphyte with a short, terete to compressed stem carryingf dense, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, obliquely acuminate toacute, transversely corrugated, prominently ribbed leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on an axillary, subpendent, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, rachis glabrous, many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts

"This species resembles R. curvata in its short-stemmed habit, and also in the wavy lamina. The leaves of the new species are narrower, however, and often more acute. The flowers are larger than those of R curvata and crowded in a shorter inflorescence. The lip is flatter and wider but it is the very wide spur of R laticalcar that is its most striking feature. The callus is rather similar to R cuvatre but not as wide." J B Hall 1974

Synonyms *Diaphananthe laticalcar J.B.Hall 1974

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 29: 427 J B Hall 1974 as Diaphananthe laticalcar ;

Orchideen Beschreib. Kult. Zücht., ed. 3, 1(16-18): 1110 Senghas 1986