Bulbophyllum pandanetorum Summerh. 1953 publ. 1954 SECTION Ptiloglossum Lindl. 1862

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Common Name or Meaning The Pandanus Loving Bulbophyllum [A tree of western Africa]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Gabon in lowland forests on Pandanus trees as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with to 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm] between each, ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly flattened, 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, oblique, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, gradually narrowing into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a basal, erect, glabrous, peduncle to 4.8 to 9.4" [12 to 23.5 cm] long, 19 to 22 scaled, rachis erect, swollen, 4 angled, 2 concave sides from which the flowers arise, only zigzag bent towards the apex, edges sharp, straight, irregularily dentate, glabrous, lax, 8 to 12.4" [20 to 31 cm] long overall, 8 to 16 flowered inflorescence with recurved to spreading, distinctly concave floral bracts and carrying distichous red flowers.

"B. pandanetorum is evidently allied to B. bifarium, which, however, has much narrower bracts of a rather stiffer texture and also differs in various minor floral features. Perhaps the most significant of these is the absence from the wings of the column below the stelidia of the triangular tooth-like projection which occurs in B bifarium." Summerhayes 1954

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 8: 580 Summerhayes 1953 publ. 1954 Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 drawing; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroideae Pt 3 Pridgeon, Cribb Chase & Ramussen 2014; Orchidaceae Of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlachetko, Ejsmont, Baranow, Grochocka, Nowak, Margonska and Naczk 2015 drawing ok

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