Bulbophyllum colubrinum (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1861 SECTION Megaclinium Summerh. 1935 Photo by © Art Vogel

Plant and Flower Photo by Guy Rammette and his Orchids Gabon Website

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Crawling Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Siera Leone, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Zaire and Angola in lowland and submontane forests at elevations of 100 to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] between each ellipsoid, slightly compressed, 2 to 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, lanceolate, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and early summer on a 6 to 20" [15 to 50 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with a swollen, flattened, smooth to indented, yellowish green spotted with purple rachis with the flowers set alternately on each side.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum decipiens Schltr. 1905; Bulbophyllum gabunense Schltr. 1905; Bulbophyllum imschootianum (Rolfe) De Wild. 1921; Bulbophyllum inaequale Rchb.f. 1886; Bulbophyllum makakense J.B.Hansen 1959; *Megaclinium colubrinum Rchb.f. 1855; Megaclinium imschootianum Rolfe 1895; Megaclinium inaequale Rchb.f. 1886; Phyllorchis colubrina (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855 as Megaclinium colubrium; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 4 1959 photo as B makakense; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 drawing fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1998; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegrist 2001

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