Bulbophyllum nigritianum Rendle 1913 SECTION Bulbophyllum

Inflorescence Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found in Siera Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Gulf of Guinea Islands Gabon and Zaire in lowland and montane forests at elevations of sea level to 1200 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with to 1" between each, ovoid to narrowly ovoid, slightly flattened, obtusely 3 to 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, thick, narrowly linear-lanceolate, to linear, acute to subacute, gradually narrowing into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect to patent, glabrous, 2.8 to 9" [7 to 22 cm] long, terete, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Bulbophyllum africanum A.D.Hawkes 1956; Bulbophyllum albidum De Wild. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 drawing fide

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