Bulbophyllum scaberulum (Rolfe) Bolus

Bulbophyllum scaberulum (Rolfe) Bolus, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 25: 181 (1889).

Bulbophyllum scaberulum (Rolfe) Bolus, Photo by Shane Graves

its native range is Tropical & S. Africa. 

Latin Name: 

Bulbophyllum scaberulum (Rolfe) Bolus 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Megaclinium scaberulum Rolfe

Accepted Infraspecifics:

Bulbophyllum scaberulum var. crotalicaudatum J.J.Verm.

Bulbophyllum scaberulum var. fuerstenbergianum (De Wild.) J.J.Verm.

Bulbophyllum scaberulum var. scaberulum

English Name:

The Slightly Roughened Bulbophyllum.

Description: 

With a concave, square, or trapezoid pseudobulb, well spaced along the rhizome, carrying 2, apical, linear or elliptic, leathery or fleshy leaves that blooms in the fall on a 5 to 55 cm long, many flowered, fleshy, round and then flattened, undulate, bracteate, purple, sometimes hirsute rachis arising on a newly mature pseudobulb, with simultaneously opening flowers.

Distribution:

Angola, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe.

Ecological:

As an epiphyte and occassional lithophyte in woodland and riverine forests at elevations of 100 to 2300 m.

Flowering times:

Bloome in the fall.

Flower size:

6.0 mm

Cultivation:

Keep plant in cool to warm warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted.

Typus:

Cribb, P. [11446], Tanzania K000242500 holotype

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/620105-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:620105-1

- https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Bulbophyllum_scaberulum

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/bulbscaberulum.htm.