Bulbophyllum ambatoavense Bosser 2004

SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

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Common Name The Ambatovy National Park Bulbophyllum [A Park area of Madagascar]

Flower Size 1/2" [7 mm]

Found in northeastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations around 700 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with dorsiventrally flattened, discoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly oblong leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, 1 to 1.8" [2.5 to 4.5 cm] long, to 12 flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION The photo above does not match the photo references available so please use with caution.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, DuPuy, Cribb and Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo so/so

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