Bulbophyllum fuscum Lindl. 1839 SECTION Oreonastes G A Fischer & J J Verm in prep
Photos by of Guy Ramette-Vovan. and his Gabon Orchids Website
Common Name or Meaning The Brown Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1/4" [.65 cm]
Found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Gabon, Rwanda, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in woodlands and riverine forests at elevations of 600 to 2100 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte on lichen covered rocks with .4 to 2.4" [1 to 6 cm] between each, ovoid to ellipsoid, often obscurely 4 angled, light green pseduobulbs carrying 2 apical, elliptic, pale green, stiff, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, widening towards the apex, 10 to many flowered inflorescence with the not wide opening flowers arising on opposite sides of the rachis
Synonyms Bulbophyllum fuscum var. melinostachyum (Schltr.) J.J.Verm. 1986; Bulbophyllum melinostachyum Schltr. 1899; Phyllorchis fusca (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Bulbophyllum obanense Rendle 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 photo/drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 as B fuscum var. melinostachyum; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; 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
Bulbophyllum fuscum var. melinostachyum (Schltr.) J.J.Verm. 1986
Photo by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
Disitnguished from the type by the larger more triangular bracted, orange flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995; 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 as B melinostachyum drawing fide
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