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Orchid Species: Podangis dactyloceras

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Podangis dactyloceras is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Schltr. in 1918.
Genus
Podangis (Pod.)
Grex
dactyloceras
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Rchb.f.) Schltr.
Year
1918
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ORIGIN: A mini-fan equitant from Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire with glasslike flowers that likes hot to warm temps and is found in evergreen rainforests often near waterfalls or rivers at altitudes of 750 to 1950 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with a short stem enveloped completely by conduplicate leaf bases carrying 4 to 8 distichous, falcate, bilaterally compressed, acute, fleshy leaves that blooms on a axillary, 2 [5 cm] long, several [5 to 20] flowered, subumbellate inflorescence that are shorter than the leaves with simultaneously opening, longlasting flowers all occurring in the spring through fall. Best grown in a pot with a coarse mix to provide excellent drainage, hot to warm, humid, semi-shaded conditions and a definite drying out between waterings.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/8 x 1/2 inch [2mm x 7 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Angraecum Angcm forcipatum 1908 (Kraenzl.) Engl. in H.G.A.Engler & O.Drude
Add+ Listrostachys Lit forcipata 1894 Kraenzl.
Add+ Listrostachys Lit saxicola 1912 Kraenzl.
Add+ Angorchis Angorchis dactyloceras 1891 (Rchb.f.) Kuntze
Add+ Listrostachys Lit dactyloceras 1865 Rchb.f.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Pod. dactyloceras 'Amelia' (4 awards in 2017) Pod. dactyloceras 'Horner Weg' (2 awards in 2016) Pod. dactyloceras 'Alfons' (2 awards in 2014) Pod. dactyloceras 'Marlies' (2 awards in 2012) Pod. dactyloceras 'Memoria Maria Bernhard' (2 awards in 1994) Pod. dactyloceras 'Lauren' (2 awards in 1983) Pod. dactyloceras 'Dink Dink' (2016) Pod. dactyloceras 'Annie' (2012) Pod. dactyloceras 'Ching Hua' (2009) Pod. dactyloceras 'Hsinying' (2005) Pod. dactyloceras 'Mid Florida' (1970)
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