Stolzia cupuligera (Kraenzl.) Summerh. 1953 Photo by © Lucie Tanner and JSTOR Plant Sciences Website

Common Name The Cap Carrying Stolzia

Flower Size

Found in Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Malawi in cloud forests in deep moss as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to inconspicuous, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptical, rounded apiocally, gradually narrowing below intot he petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a short, single flowered inflroescence holding the brown maroon to brick red fleshy flower below the leaf.

Synonyms *Bulbophyllum cupuligerum Kraenzl.1909; Stolzia diffusa Summerh. 1953

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo ok; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 Bulbophyllum cupiligerum

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