Bulbophyllum schimperianum Kraenzl. 1902 SECTION Ptiloglossum Lindl. 1862
Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning Schimper's Bulbophyllum [German Plant collector 1800's]
Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]
Found in Liberia, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Zaire and Uganda in lowland to montane forests at elevations up tp 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with usually ovoid, occasionally orbicular to obreniform, slightly flattened , obtusely 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, gradually into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring, summer or fall on a basal, near erect, to arching, terete, glabrous, 3.8 to 23.8" [9.5 to 59 cm] long, scattered to densely 10 to 100 flowered inflorescence with many to a few simultaneously opening flowers
Synonyms Bulbophyllum acutisepalum De Wild. 1916; Bulbophyllum xanthoglossum Schltr. 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Malawi Orchids Vol 1 La Croix 1983 as B acutisepalum drawing good; Flora of Tropical East Africa, Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984 as B acutisepalum; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Vol 2 Cribb 1984; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 drawing/photo fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001; Orchidaceae Of West Central Africa Vol 2 Szlachetko, Ejsmont, Baranow, Grochocka, Nowak, Margonska and Naczk 2015 drawing ok
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