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Bulbophyllum carassense R.C.Mota, F.Barros & Stehmann 2009 SECTION Xiphizusa Rchb.f 1852

TYPE Drawing by H Helena Burrian © and Novon 19 380 - 387 Two New Species of Orchidaceae from Brazil: Bulbophyllum carassense and Lepanthopsis vellozicola Mota, Barros and Stehman 2009

Common Name The Carassa Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil in semi deciduous forests and riverbanks at elevations around 900 to 1200 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with .12 to .28" [3 to 7 mm] between each successive pseudobulbs, secondary stems modified into pseudobulbs, conspicuously corrugate, glossy, ovoid, slightly to conspicuously dorsally compressed, dark green to brownish green, aggregate pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, chartaceous to subchartaceous, flat to slightly conduplicate, narrowly oblong to linear-elliptic, dark green, slightly bicolored, acute to mucronate, narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the summer and earlier fall on a basal, slightly nutant, 1 per pseudobulb, peduncle .96 to 2.4" [2.4 to 6 cm] long, scarious, free part lingulate, obtuse apically, longer than the ovary floral bracts, rachis .6 to 2.2" [1.5 to 5.5 cm] long, simultaneously 4 to 14 flowered inflorescence carrying downward facing, resupinate flowers.

The flowers of B carassense resemble those of B bidentatum, B fififolium and B plumosum all of the section Xiphuzusa.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Novon 19 380 - 387 Two New Species of Orchidaceae from Brazil: Bulbophyllum carassense and Lepanthopsis vellozicola Mota, Barros and Stehman 2009 drawing fide

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