Bulbophyllum oxychilum Schltr. 1905 SECTION Oreonastes G A Fischer & J J Verm in prep
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Photo by Art Vogel
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Common Name The Pointed Lip Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1/4" max [1 cm max]
Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Gabon, Zaire and Uganda in wet rain forests at elevations of sealevel to 500 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 3/4" [2 cm] between each, angled pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, elliptic, acute leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, 12" [30 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with flowers strongly scented of coumarin, a substance used in rat poison and as an anti-coagulant and an anti-fungicide.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum buntingii Rendle 1913; Bulbophyllum ellipticum De Wild. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970 as B buntingii; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as B buntingii drawing ok; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Vol 2 Cribb 1984as B buntingii; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 photo/drawing fide; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 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/photo ok
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