Bulbophyllum colubrinum (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1861 SECTION Megaclinium G A Fischer & J J Verm in prep.
Photo by © Art Vogel
Photo by Guy Rammette and his Orchids Gabon Website
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EARLY
Common Name The Crawling Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Zaire and Angola in lowland and submontane forests at elevations of 100 to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] between each ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 2 to 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, lanceolate, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a 6 to 20" [15 to 50 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with a swollen, flattened, smooth to indented, yellowish green spotted with purple rachis with the flowers set alternately on each side.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum decipiens Schltr. 1905; Bulbophyllum gabunense Schltr. 1905; Bulbophyllum imschootianum (Rolfe) De Wild. 1921; Bulbophyllum inaequale Rchb.f. 1886; Bulbophyllum makakense J.B.Hansen 1959; *Megaclinium colubrinum Rchb.f. 1855; Megaclinium imschootianum Rolfe 1895; Megaclinium inaequale Rchb.f. 1886; Phyllorchis colubrina (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as Megaclinium colubrium; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 4 1959 as B makakense photo/drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 drawing fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegrist 2001; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Orchidaceae Of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlachetko, Ejsmont, Baranow, Grochocka, Nowak, Margonska and Naczk 2015 drawing fide; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001
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