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Angraecum conchiferum

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Identification
Angraecum conchiferum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Entry for Angraecum conchiferum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 11, Part 2, (1998) Author: I. la Croix & P.J. Cribb
Names
Angraecum conchiferum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Companion Bot. Mag. 2: 205 (1837). —Bolus, Icon. Orchid. Austro-Afric. 2: t. 4 (1911). —Rolfe in F.C. 5, 3: 70 (1912). —Schlechter in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36, abt. 2: 170 (1918). —Summerhayes in Kew Bull. 13: 275 (1958). —Goodier & Phipps in Kirkia 1: 54 (1961). —Piers, Orch. E. Africa, rev. ed.: 229 (1968). —Morris, Epiphyt. Orch. Malawi: 83 (1970). —Grosvenor in Excelsa 6: 78 (1976). —Ball, South. African Epiphyt. Orch.: 256 (1978). —Stewart et al., Wild Orch. South. Africa: 256 (1982). —Cribb in F.T.E.A., Orchidaceae: 500 (1989). —la Croix et al., Orch. Malawi: 238 (1991). —Stewart, Orch. Kenya: 17 (1996). TAB. 126. Type from South Africa.
Angorkis conchifera Lindl. Kuntze [family ORCHIDACEAE], Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 651 (1891).
Angraecum verrucosum Rendle [family ORCHIDACEAE], in J. Bot. 33: 250 (1895). Type: Malawi, Mt. Mulanje, Whyte (BM, holotype).
Mystacidium verrucosum Rendle Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE], in F.T.A. 7: 171 (1897).
Angraecum scabripes Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 33: 73 (1902). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Epiphytic herb; stem elongated, to c. 60 cm long, often branched.Roots 1–2 mm in diameter, grey, verrucose.Basal part of stem covered with old leaf sheaths, black-dotted.Leaves several, borne towards apex of the stem, distichous, dark green, 4–6 cm × 4–7 mm, linear, unequally and obtusely 2-lobed at the apex.Inflorescences arising opposite leaf axils, 1–2-flowered.Peduncle c. 25 mm long; pedicel and ovary c. 20 mm long; bracts 1.5–5 mm long.Flowers white.Sepals and petals 16–30 × 2–4 mm, linear-lanceolate, long acuminate.Lip 9–11 × 10–12 mm, very concave with a central keel, sub-orbicular with an apiculum 3.5–9 mm long; spur tapering, 3–5 cm long.Column 2–3 mm long.
Habitat
Montane evergreen forest
Altitude range
1800–1900 m.
1900
1800
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Mts., Mt. Peza, 1800 m, fl. 15.x.1950, Wild 3622 (SRGH).Malawi S Zomba Mt., near summit, 1900 m, fl. 4.x.1986, Linder 3929 (K; PRE); Mulanje Mt., Lichenya Plateau, 1860 m, fl. 18.ix.1970, Pawek 3883 (K).Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., Valley of the Wizards, fl. 29.viii.1964, Whellan 2144 (SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
South Africa

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