Genus: Bulbophyllum

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Orchidaceae

About 1000 species (world tropics and subtropics), of which 12 are native to southern Africa. An additional six species are cultivated in the region.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Bulbophyllum ballii Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Bulbophyllum elliotii
Bulbophyllum encephalodes Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Bulbophyllum humblotii Recorded from Zimbabwe.
Bulbophyllum intertextum Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Bulbophyllum josephi Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Bulbophyllum maximum Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Bulbophyllum melinostachyum Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Bulbophyllum longiflorum
Bulbophyllum sandersonii
Bulbophyllum scaberulum
Bulbophyllum unifoliatum Recorded from Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Other species, cultivated in southern Africa

List from Glen (2002).

Bulbophyllum careyanum Native to the area from India to Thailand.
Bulbophyllum gadgarrense Native to Australia.
Bulbophyllum malawiense Native to southern and tropical Africa.
Bulbophyllum medusae [= Cirrhopetalum medusae] Native to Malaysia.
Bulbophyllum oreonastes Native to tropical Africa.
Bulbophyllum schimperianum [= Bulbophyllum acutisepalum] Native to tropical Africa.