Entry for BULBOPHYLLUM filiforme Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 12, (1898) Author: (By R. A. Rolfe.)
Names
BULBOPHYLLUM filiformeKränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 25.
Information
Pseudobulbs ovate, 2-leaved. Leaves lanceolate, obtuse. Rhachis of raceme very slender, about 2 ft. long, pendulous, lax, many-flowered; base with some ovate, acute sheaths. Bracts minute, ovate, reflexed, and as well as the rhachis and outside of the flowers sparsely covered with black hairs. Flowers minute, about 1 1/4 lin. in diameter. Dorsal sepal narrowly ovate, triangular, acuminate; lateral ones much broader, ovate, obtuse. Petals linear, acute, equalling the sepals. Lip curved, triangular, sulcate from the middle to the apex. Column winged from the base to near the apex.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea between Victoria and Bimbia, Preuss, 1242.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description, but very remarkable in the inflorescence.