Bulbophyllum platybulbum

Where it grows wild

An epiphyte, and at least sometimes a plant of rocky inselberg slopes among shrubs and mats of Afrotrilepis, in lowland evergreen forest regions of the Atlantic coast. One collection comes from an old cacao plantation with remnant original forest overhead, another from the Kinguélé falls. Wikipedia's 'subtropical or tropical dry forest' habitat does not fit these labels.

Few records carry an elevation; the one that does gives 153 m, and the localities (Kribi, Edéa, Ebolowa, Bipindi, Monts de Cristal) lie roughly between 50 and 700 m.