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Orchid Species: Aerangis gracillima
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Aerangis gracillima is an orchid species identified by (Kraenzl.) J.C.Arends & J.Stewart in 1989.
ORIGIN: Found in Cameroon and Gabon in shady rainforests and in old cocoa plantations at elevations of 470 to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short, woody stem carrying 6 to 14, narrowly obovate, dark green, leathery, unequally and acutely to obtusely lobed apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and earlier spring on a pendent, to 32 [80 cm] long, 7 to 12 flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 4.6 inches [9 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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