Bulbophyllum discilabium H.Perrier 1951
SECTION Pantoblepharon Schlechter 1925
Photos by © Stijn and the Orchids Forum Website
Another flower Photo by Johan Hermans LATE
Common Name The Disc-Shaped Lip Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in central eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 960 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with very close set, small, discoid, olive, colored pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-oblanceolate, paering from the tip to the base leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on a basal, erect, .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, provided with 2 to 3 bracts, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with acute, twice to more longer than the ovary floral bracts.
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;
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