Bulbophyllum denticulatum Rolfe 1891

SECTION Denticulata G A Fischer & J J Vermeullen in prep Drawing © by Vermeullen

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Common Name The Denticulate Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Cameroon in montane forests at elevations up to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a wiry rhizome with .6 to .72" [1.5 to 1.8 cm] between each ovoid to narrowly ovoid, not to hardly flattened, obtusely 4 angled pseudobulb carrying 2, apical, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, obtuse apically, emarginate, slightly oblique, coriaceous, thick, midrib slightly prominent abaxially, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect to patent, 7.6 to 12.4" [19 to 31 cm] long, glabrous, with 7 to 9 tubular, obtuse to slightly retuse, membraneous bracts, rachis nodding, terete, glabrous, .1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, many simultaneously open, scattered, rather dense 9 to 21 flowered inflorescence that is 8.8 to 13.6" [22 to 34 cm] long overall, with recurved, membraneous, ovate, acute, rather broad base, floral bracts and carrying not fully open, greenish brown flowers that are often striated purple and an orange lip.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list, IPNI AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; Orchid Monographs Vol 3 Vermeullen 1987 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroideae Pt 3 Pridgeon, Cribb Chase & Ramussen 2014;

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