Bulbophyllum elliottii Rolfe 1891 SECTION Lupulina Pfitzer 1888

Plant In Situ Zimbabwe reddish bulbs on left - on right is Bulb sandersoni] Photo by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite

Common Name Elliott's Bulbophyllum [English Orchid Collector Madagascar 1800's]]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Burundia, Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Transvaal South Africa and Madagascar in dry woodlands and evergreen forests at elevations of 250 to 1700 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, squat, ovoid, wrinkled, ridged, yellow to reddish pseduobulbs carrying 2 apical, fleshy, broadly elliptic, apically bilobed leaves that blooms in the fall on a basal, 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm], swollen, purple, few flowered, racemose inflorescence

Synonyms Bulbophyllum malawiense B.Morris 1968

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1936/81; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo ok; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as B malawiense photo; Malawi Orchids La Croix 1983 as B malawiense; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984 as B malawiense; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide

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