Bulbophyllum cocoinum Bateman ex Lindl. 1837 Section Cocoina Pfitzer 1888

Inflorescence and Flowers Photo courtesy of 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

Found in Sierra Leone to Zaire and Uganda as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a gracefully arching inflorescence arising in the fall that is longer than the leaves and can achieve 1' 4" [40 cm] in length and carries several to many coconut scented flowers.

Lourens photo waws 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 1987; 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;