Bulbophyllum hirsutiusculum H.Perrier 1937

SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

TYPE Collection sheet by © Perrier and the Museum National D'Historie Naturelle Website

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Common Name The Shortly Hirsute Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in central eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 1000 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a thick rhizome giving rise to oval, , 6 angled, yellow pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, elliptic to oblong, narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on a basal, erect, peduncle 12.8 to 16" [32 to 40 cm] long, enveloped by 10 to 11, thin, very obtuse, two uppermost flared and shorter bracts, dense, cylindrical, thicker than the peduncle, rachis 4 to 5" [12.5 to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with half as long as the flower floral bracts and caryring flowers with the exterior covered by dull, short, stiff hairs.

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; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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