Bulbophyllum coccinatum H.Perrier 1938

SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

Collection sheet by © M Humblot and the Kew's Plants of the World Website

AGAIN LATE

Common Name The Red Berry Bulbophyllum [refers to the flowers that can be also yellowish to orange]

Flower Size

Found in northeastern Madagascar in humid lowland forests along lakeside at elevations of sea level to 110 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a rhizmoe giving rise to light yellow .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] between each, ovate-conical, 3 to 4 almost winged angled pseudobulbs enveloped by reddish, thick, ribbed sheaths and carrying a single, apical, ascending, narrowly oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse, fairly long attenuate below into the petioalte base leaf that blooms in the winter and again in the later spring on an erect, basal, 1.8 to 5.6" [4.5 to 14 cm] long overall, peduncle and rachis thick, peduncle 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, provided with 2 to 3, vary ample, flared, briefly clasping bracts, rachis 2.8 to 3.6" [7 to 9 cm] long, red, loosely 15 to 30 flowered inflorescence with thick, broadly deltoid, 1/2 as long as the flower floral bracts and carrying reddish to yellowish to orange flowers buried in the rachis so only the dorsal sepal is free.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 Photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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