Bolusiella maudiae (Bolus) Schltr. 1918

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Dr Schelpe

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Common Name Maude's Bolusiella [Orchid Collector in South Africa 1800's]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire, Zambi and Zimbabwe as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte in riverine forests and high rainfall woodlands usually on large branches at elevations of 550 to 1900 meters with sword-shaped, obtuse, very fleshy, dark green leaves held in a fan that blooms on a basal, 2" [5 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Angraecum maudae Bolus 1893; Bolusiella imbricata (Rolfe) Schltr. 1918; Listrostachys imbricata Rolfe 1910

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Introduction to the South African Orchids Schelpe 1966; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987 genus only; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1982; Malawi Orchids La Croix 1983; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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