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Orchid Species: Bulbophyllum congolanum

Kew currently accepted name is Bulbophyllum scaberulum

Bulbophyllum congolanum is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1905. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum scaberulum.
Genus
Bulbophyllum (Bulb.)
Grex
congolanum
Parents
Species
Author
Schltr.
Year
1905
ORIGIN: Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Zaire, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cape Province and Natal South Africa as an epiphyte and occasional lithophyte in woodland and riverine forests at elevations of 100 to 2300 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Zaire, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cape Province and Natal South Africa as an epiphyte and occasional lithophyte in woodland and riverine forests at elevations of 100 to 2300 meters 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 2 to 22 [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.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/8 to 1/4 inch [5 to 6 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb scaberulum 1889 (Rolfe) Bolus
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb bambiliense 1916 De Wild.
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb chevalieri 1921 De Wild.
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb ealaense 1916 De Wild.
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb eburneum 1921 (Pfitzer) De Wild.
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb fuerstenbergianum 1921 (De Wild.) De Wild.
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb jespersenii 1916 De Wild.
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb pobeguinii 1921 (Finet) De Wild.
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb summerhayesii 1956 A.D.Hawkes
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb zobiaense 1916 De Wild.
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm scaberulum 1888 Rolfe
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm bambiliense 1916 De Wild.
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm chevalieri 1921 De Wild.
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm clarkei 1891 Rolfe
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm congolanum 1909 (Schltr.) T.Durand & H.Durand
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm ealaense 1916 De Wild.
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm eburneum 1908 Pfitzer
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm fuerstenbergianum 1899 De Wild. in C.A.Cogniaux & A.P.G.Goossens
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm jespersenii 1916 De Wild.
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm pobeguinii 1910 Finet
Add+ Megaclinium Mgm zobiaense 1916 De Wild.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Bulb. scaberulum var. scaberulum 'Karen's Oddity' (3 awards from 2015 to 2016) Bulb. scaberulum 'MAJ' (1998)
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