Bulbophyllum ferkoanum Schltr. 1918 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full Shade Hot Warm

Common Name or Meaning The Ferkoa? Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm]

Found in Madagascar in lowland forests at unknown elevations as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 4 angled, elongate pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, coriaceous, ligulate, obtuse leaves that blooms on an erect, longer than the leaves, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with oval-triangular, apiculate, twice as long as the pedicel floral bracts and carrying glabrous flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009;

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------