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Syn. Megaclinium purpureorhachis

Smells a bit like coconut.

Probably due to their small size, Bulbophyllums have experienced a surge in popularity in the last five or so years, primarily from the terrarium market. Very soon (or very recently), botanists from here in Leiden, and more importantly Vienna, are to publish a new book on Bulbophyllum, including new data from molecular studies. Be prepared for taxonomic changes! The center for Bulbophyllum research has for some time now been Vienna; the best public collection in the world is apparently in Singapore.

One of the largest Bulbophyllum species, but variable in growth, this is actually quite a small version. Here's a bigger version with a less wide hood: www.flickr.com/photos/54255865@N00/3390747055/in/set-7215...

This is also a CITES II species, but it is considerably more common in cultivation than the previous Bulbophyllum I posted. I see companies offering it for sale in Japan, Australia, Britain, Europe and the USA. At between 30 to 50 US$, it is one of the more expensive species.

It is apparently one of the easier species to grow, not mounted like most Bubophyllums, but simply grown in soil.

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This is an epiphyte of lowland rainforest. The proven distribution of this species is Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon. Again, one would suspect it to occur in Nigeria, Benin, Equatorial Guinea and perhaps Togo, but there is no information extant.

I found a weird company offering plants for sale from Zimbabwe, but I can't tell if they were stolen from the wild in Zimbabwe and then some official was bribed to issue CITES documentation certifying it was grown from cultivated stock, or stolen from the wild in some other country and then smuggled to Zimb where some official could be bribed to issue CITES documentation. Alternatively maybe the company was lying or mistaken about where they got it?...
Or maybe everyone is actually telling the truth???

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