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Orchid Species: Angraecum marsupiocalcaratum

Kew currently accepted name is Calyptrochilum christyanum

Angraecum marsupiocalcaratum is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1914. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Calyptrochilum christyanum.
Genus
Angraecum (Angcm.)
Grex
marsupiocalcaratum
Parents
Species
Author
Kraenzl.
Year
1914
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ORIGIN: Found in Cameroon, Angola, Central African Republic, Congo, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory coast, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe [Also in Brazil] in riverine forests and wooded grasslands at elevations around 900 to 1900 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, monopodial, warm to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte and occasional lithophyte on rock outcroppings with a woody, pendant to horizontal stem carrying numerous, distichous, oblong to strap-shaped, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, fleshy, olive green leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a very short, several [6 to 12] flowered inflorescence that arises opposite of the leaves and carrying lemon scented flowers that open white and turn apricot with age.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [0.9 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm christyanum 1936 (Rchb.f.) Summerh. in J.Hutchinson & J.M.Dalziel
Add+ Angraecum Angcm christyanum 1880 Rchb.f.
Add+ Rhaphidorhynchus Rhaphidorhynchus moloneyi 1907 (Rolfe) Finet
Add+ Angraecum Angcm bokoyense 1916 De Wild.
Add+ Angraecum Angcm ivorense 1920 A.Chev.
Add+ Angraecum Angcm malangeanum 1895 Kraenzl.
Add+ Angraecum Angcm moloneyi 1897 Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Angraecum Angcm mombasaense 1897 Rolfe in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Angraecum Angcm ovalifolium 1903 De Wild.
Add+ Angraecum Angcm pynaertii 1903 De Wild.
Add+ Angraecum Angcm schoellerianum 1894 Kraenzl. ex Schweinf.
Add+ Angraecum Angcm zigzag 1903 De Wild.
Add+ Campylocentrum Cctm marcalianum 2005 Campacci
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm bokoyense 1918 (De Wild.) Schltr.
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm malangeanum 1918 (Kraenzl.) Schltr.
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm marsupiocalcaratum 1918 (Kraenzl.) Schltr.
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm moloneyi 1915 (Rolfe) Schltr.
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm mombasaense 1915 (Rolfe) Schltr.
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm orientale 1915 Schltr.
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm ovalifolium 1918 (De Wild.) Schltr.
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm pynaertii 1918 (De Wild.) Schltr.
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm schoellerianum 1915 (Kraenzl. ex Schweinf.) Schltr.
Add+ Calyptrochilum Cpm zigzag 1918 (De Wild.) Schltr.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Cpm. christyanum 'Interlaken' (2000)
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