Bolusiella batesii (Rolfe) Schltr. 1918
Plant and Flowers in situ Cameroon Photos by M. Simo and His West African Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning Bater's Bolusiella
Flower Size .22" [6mm]
Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Cameroon, Gabon and Congo as a dwarf, 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, fledshy, apically rounded, flattened leaves that blooms in the fall and winter much longer than the leaves, many bracted, slendfer, racemose, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, densely several to many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Listrostachys batesii Rolfe 1897
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 48-49 Vandeae 1986 drawing/photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006
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