Bulbophyllum alleizettei Schltr. 1922 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

Plant and Flowers in situ Madgascar

Photos by © Gary Yongee and The Yongee Name Website

deep Shade cool MIDSpring and Again MID Summer

Common Name or Meaning Alleizete's Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .12" [3 mm] long

Found in east central Madagascar in humid evergreen forests on a plateau at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with with .2 to .6" bvetween each, subcylindrical, slightly dilate basally pseudobulbs carrying a single, apcail, erect, ligulate, subacute leaf that blooms in the mid spring and mid summer on a [.2 to .4" [.5 to 1 mm] long, peduncle as long as the pseudobulb, arcuate rachis subloose, to 2" [5 cm] long overall, 2 to 9 flowered inflorescence with oval-apiculate, diaphonous, more than twice as long as the pedicel floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, DuPuy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide

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