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Cyrtorchis ringens

Botanic Family

Orchidaceae

Author

(Reichenbach f.) Summerhayes

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Cameron
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Gulf of Guinea Is.
• Ivory Coast
• Malawi
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Submontane forest
• riverine forest

Flowering Times

• Spring
• Autumn

Fruiting Times

Stem-rooting epiphytic climbing orchid with bilobate leaves 135mm x 32mm, racemes to 200mm long of fragrant white to greenish flowers with bracts 4mm long, sepals 8mm x 2mm & petals 8mm long, petals narrower than sepals, spur 22mm long

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew
• IOSPE