Bolusiella

Bolusiella is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It consists of 4 currently recognized species that are endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and the Comoro Islands.

Bolusiella are often very small, no more than a few centimeters tall. They exhibit monopodial growth.

Species and subspecies
The following are accepted as of May 2014:


 * Bolusiella fractiflexa Droissart, Stévart & Verlynde - Cameroon, Rwanda to Burundi
 * Bolusiella iridifolia (Rolfe) Schltr.
 * Bolusiella iridifolia subsp. iridifolia - from Ivory Coast east to Ethiopia and Tanzania, south to Angola and Zimbabwe; also Comoros
 * Bolusiella iridifolia subsp. picea P.J.Cribb - from Burundi and Kenya south to Zimbabwe
 * Bolusiella maudiae (Bolus) Schltr. - from Ivory Coast east to Tanzania, south to KwaZulu-Natal
 * Bolusiella talbotii (Rendle) Summerh. in J.Hutchinson & J.M.Dalziel - from Sierra Leone to Tanzania
 * Bolusiella zenkeri (Kraenzl.) Schltr. - from Ivory Coast east to Gabon