!Genyorchis apetala [Lindley] Senghas 1989
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Common Name The Small Flowered Genyorchis
Flower Size 1/8"
Found in Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Siera Leone, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Congo, Zaire and Uganda in rainforests, mangroves and lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 1400 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid or oblong, 4 angled pseudobulbs arising from a woody rhizome and carrying 2, spreading, oblong-elliptic, apically bilobed, fleshy or leathery leaves that blooms on a 2" [5 cm] long, basal, several flowered, racemose inflorescence.
This species was known as Genyorchis pumila, it and Bulbophyllum pumilum are confused by many authorities and B pumilum is said to be a syn of Genyorchis pumila but Bulbophyllum pumillum has two leaves and is red flowered while the latter is single leafed and most often green or white flowered. Since Schlechter made his accepted genus Genyorchis and made Genyorchis pumila as the type, he erroneously assumed that Dendrobium pumilum was the basionym but that name was invalid and so Genyorchis apetala was created and is now the type species of the genus Genyorchis with Bulbophyllum apetala Lindley as the basionym.
Synonyms *Bulbophyllum apetalum Lindl. 1862; Genyorchis pumila [Sw.] Schltr. 1901; Polystachya bulbophylloides Rolfe 1891;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as G pumila; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984 as Genyorchis pumila; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 as B apetalum Lindl.; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001 as Genyorchis pumila; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1996 as Genyorchis pumila; 1987 Orchid Monographs Vol 2-'A Taxonomic revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae' by J. J. Vermeulen.
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