Bulbophyllum ballii P.J.Cribb 1977 SECTION Ptiloglossum Lindl. 1862
Drawing by © J J Vermuellen
Drawing by © John Ball and The Swiss Orchid Foundation a the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
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Common Name Ball's Bulbophyllum [English Botanist 1900's]
Flower Size .1" [2 mm]
Found in Zambia and Zimbabwe in lowland evergreen and riverine forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphtye with close set, ovoid to ellipsoid, hardly to moderately flattened, 4 angle pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2 apical, erect, coriaceous, thick, midrib slightly prominent abaxially, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer on a basal, erect to patent, to 3" [7.5 cm] long, several flowered, slighly swollen apically, spindle shaped inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide
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