Bulbophyllum acutibracteatum De Wild.1921 Photo by © Eric Hunt and Orchid Photo Site

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Common Name The Acute Bracted Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1/4" [.8 cm]

Found in Liberia, Siera Leone, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands and Zaire in lowland forests at elevations up to 1000 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid to ellipsoid, 4 to 6 angled pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, elliptic to lanceolate, obtuse, emarginate, thick, leathery leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescnece that has a 4 angled rachis and the flwoers are held on opposite concave sides.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum acutibracteatum var. rubrobrunneopapillosum (De Wild.) J.J.Verm. 1986; Bulbophyllum fuscoides J.B.Petersen 1952; Bulbophyllum platyrhachis De Wilid. 1906; Bulbophyllum rubrobrunneopapillosum De Wild. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 African Bulbophyllinae Vermuellen 1987; African Orchids in The Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 11 2008

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