Bolusiella zenkeri (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1918
Plant and Flowers in situ Cameroon
Photos by Murielle Simo-Droissart and Her West African Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning Zenker's Bolusiella
Flower Size .22" [6mm]
Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Cameroon, Gabon and Congo as a dwarf sized, fan-shaped, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect stem completely enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths carrying 6 to 10, arranged in a fan, rigid, fleshy, apically rounded, flattened leaves that blooms in the fall and winter much longer than the leaves, many bracted, slender, racemose, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Angraecum zenkeri (Kraenzl.) Engl. 1908; Bolusiella batesii (Rolfe) Schltr. 1918; *Listrostachys batesii Rolfe 1897; *Listrostachys zenkeri Kraenzl. 1894
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 as B batesii drawing/photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 as B batesii; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 as B batesiiphoto/drawing fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 as B batesii; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006
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