Bulbophyllum bracteolatum Lindl. 1838 SECTION Bulbophyllaria TYPE Photo by © Jardin Soloy

Common Name The Small Bract Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found from French Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with deeply ridged, narrowly ovoid-conical, strongly tetragon, slightly oblique pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few sheaths and carrying 2, apical, rigid, strongly coriaceous, patent, slightly recurved in the apical half, slightly concave to sub-plane, narrowly oblong, obtuse gradually narrows below into the short, petiolate base leaf and blooms on a terete becoming swollen towards the apex, eret then arching, 12" [30 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence enveloped below by submembraneous, distant, obtuse, tubular bracts .

Synonyms Bolbophyllaria bracteolata (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1852; Bolbophyllaria sordida Rchb.f 1861; Phyllorchis bracteolata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis pachyrhyncha A.Rich. ex Benth., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 299 (1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001

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