Bulbophyllum bufo (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861
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Common Name The Warty Bulbophyllum
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Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Gabon, Zaire and Uganda at elevations of sealevel to 500 meters as a hot to warm growing epiphyte with conical pseudobulbs carrying two, apical, elliptic, acute leaf that blooms on a basal, 12" [30 cm][ long, several to many flowered inflorescence. This species and Genyorchis pumila are confused by many authorities saying Bulbophyllum pumilum is a syn of Genyorchis pumila but the later has two leaves and is red flowered while the former is single leafed and most often red to orange-brown flowered.
Synonyms *Megaclinium bufo Lindl. 1841
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1996
