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Bulbophyllum barbigerum

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Bolbophyllum barbigerum Lindl. original illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Bolbophyllum barbigerum. Print from Edward's Botanical Register
Bulbophyllum barbigerum Lindl.
Filed as Bulbophyllum barbigerum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Bearded Bolbophyllum
Bulbophyllum barbigerum Lindl.; original illustration from FWTA
Bolbophyllum barbigerum Lindl. published illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine
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Name

Identification
Bulbophyllum barbigerum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Bulbophyllum barbigerum

Flora

Entry for BULBOPHYLLUM barbigerum Lindl. [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 barbigerum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Reg. t. 1942. —Bot. Mag. t. 5288; Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 252.
Information
Pseudobulbs 3/4–1 in. apart on a stout creeping rhizome, suborbicular or elliptical-oblong, subcompressed, 3/4–1 in. long, 1-leaved. Leaves oblong, obtuse, 2–3 in. long, 3/4–1 in. broad. Scapes suberect or deflexed, arcuate, 4–8 in. long; raceme 3–4 in. long, many-flowered. Bracts distichous, spreading, lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, 3–4 1/2 lin. long. Sepals spreading, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acute, 5–6 lin. long. Petals minute, subulate, 1/3 lin. long. Lip linear, base villose, upper half pilose with purple hairs 9–10 lin. long, some of which are clavate. Column stout, 1/2 lin. long; teeth incurved, falcate-linear, 3/4 lin. long.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea cultivated specimen, Loddiges!Lagos Upper Guinea Moloney!Upper Guinea Delta of the Niger, Dalton!

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