Bulbophyllum cocoinum Bateman ex Lindl. 1837 SECTION Bulbophyllum

Inflorescence and Flowers Photo courtesy of Gerardus B. Staal and his Hybrid Flask Page

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Common Name or Meaning The Coconut Bulbophyllum [refers to the scent of the flowers]

Flower Size .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]

Found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea ISlands, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Angola and Uganda in rainforests at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, cylindrical-conical, to conical, sliughtly angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, slightly coriaceous, narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, acute to acuminate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, 6 to 15.2" [15 to 38 cm] long, gracefully arching, terete, densely flowered inflorescence arising in the fall that is longer than the leaves and carries several to many coconut scented flowers.

Lourens photo was sent in as B vitiense.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum andongense Rchb.f 1865; Bulbophyllum brevidenticulatum De Wildeman 1916; Bulbophyllum vitiense Rolfe 1893

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1967; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 Vermuellen 1987 drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1982; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001;African Orchids in the WIld and Cultivation La Croix 1997;

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