Bulbophyllum amoenum Bosser 1965
Photo by © Tom Ballinger and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Jean Bosser and Adansonia n.s., 5: 398 Bossser 1969
LATE 
EARLY
Common Name The Beautiful Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in cental east Madagascar in Araucaria forests at elevations around 1300 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a thin, terete, repent rhizome giving rise to applanate-ovoid, with .08" [.2 mm] between each ovoid-subglobose, yellowish green spotted with red, drying rugose pseudobulb carrying a single, thick, coriaceous, elliptical, green spotted with red, obtuse, shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a thin, peduncle provided with 4 to 5 membraneous sheaths, 1.6 to 1,8" [4 to 4.5 cm] long, rachis 1.2 to 1.8" [3 to 4.5 cm] long, lax, 6 to 9 flowered inflorescencewith ovate, obtuse floral bracts and carrying rose colored flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Adansonia n.s., 5: 398 Bossser 1969 drawing fide; 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; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 drawing/photo fide;
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