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Orchid Species: Listrostachys gabonensis

Kew currently accepted name is Rhipidoglossum rutilum

Listrostachys gabonensis is an orchid species identified by Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.) in 1897. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Rhipidoglossum rutilum.
Genus
Listrostachys (Lit.)
Grex
gabonensis
Parents
Species
Author
Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.)
Year
1897
ORIGIN: Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Burundi, Ceantral African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf og Guinea Islands, Rwanda, Zaire, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe as a medium sized, hot to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte in evergreen forests low on trunks and branches at elevations of 100 to 2200 meters.

DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, hot to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte in evergreen forests low on trunks and branches at elevations of 100 to 2200 meters with a pendant stem carrying strap shaped, linear, or oblanceolate, unequally and roundly bilobed apically, leathery, fleshy, dark olive green, often tinged in purple leaves and blooms in the fall on an axillary, pendant, 2 to 8 [5 to 20 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.18 to 0.25 inches [4 to 8 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Rhipidoglossum Rhip rutilum 1918 (Rchb.f.) Schltr.
Add+ Aeranthes Aerth rutilus 1885 Rchb.f.
Add+ Angraecopsis Ago rutila 2005 (Rchb.f.) R.Rice
Add+ Angraecum Angcm erectocalcaratum 1916 De Wild.
Add+ Angraecum Angcm woodianum 1899 Schltr.
Add+ Chamaeangis Cmg schliebenii 1933 Mansf.
Add+ Diaphananthe Dpthe erectocalcarata 1960 (De Wild.) Summerh.
Add+ Diaphananthe Dpthe margaritae 1918 (De Wild.) Schltr.
Add+ Diaphananthe Dpthe rutila 1960 (Rchb.f.) Summerh.
Add+ Listrostachys Lit multiflora 1897 Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Rhipidoglossum Rhip erectocalcaratum 1948 (De Wild.) Summerh.
Add+ Rhipidoglossum Rhip woodianum 1918 (Schltr.) Schltr.
Add+ Tridactyle Tr erectocalcarata 1918 (De Wild.) Schltr.
Add+ Mystacidium Mycdm rutilum 1894 (Rchb.f.) T.Durand & Schinz
Add+ Listrostachys Lit margaritae 1903 De Wild.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Rhip. rutilum 'Deggendorf' (2018) Rhip. rutilum 'Nakuru' (2018) Dpthe. rutila 'Tina' (1979)
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