Bulbophyllum schimperianum Kraenzl. 1902 SECTION Bulbophyllum

Inflorescence and Plant Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning Schimper's Bulbophyllum [German Plant collector 1800's]

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in Liberia, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Zaire and Uganda in lowland to montane forests at elevations up tp 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with usually ovoid, occasionally orbicular t o obreniform, slightly fallened , obtusely 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, gradullay intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring, summer or fall on a basal, near erect, to arching, terete, glabrous, 3.8 to 23.8" [9.5 to 59 cm] long, scattered to densely 10 to 100 flowered inflorescence with many to few simultaneously opening flowers

Synonyms Bulbophyllum acutisepalum De Wild. 1916; Bulbophyllum xanthoglossum Schltr. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa, Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 drawing/photo fide

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