Bolusiella fractiflexa Droissart, Stévart & Verlynde 2013TYPE Drawing by © Murielle Simo-Droissart and Taxonomic revision of the genus Bolusiella (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae) with a new species from Cameroon, Burundi and Rwanda Website

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Common Name The Fractiflex Bolusiella [refers to the peduncle]

Flower Size .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm]

Found in Cameroon, Burundi and Rwanda in lowland semi-deciduous forests and montane forests at elevations of 500 to 2200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with a non-branching stem carrying a few, not deeply sulcate on the upper surface, linear, slightly falcate, acute leaves that blooms in the later summer on an arising from beneath the leaves, peduncle .75 to 1" [1.8 to 2.5 cm] long, fractiflex, 1.12 to 1.46" [2.8 to 3.6 cm] long overall, 6 to 9 flowered inflorescence with black, triangular, larger than the flowers floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Phytotaxa 114 (1) © 2013 Magnolia Press Taxonomic revision of the genus Bolusiella (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae) with a new species from Cameroon, Burundi and Rwanda

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