Bulbophyllum hyalinum Schltr. 1924 SECTION Pantoblepharon Schlechter 1925
Photo by © Labatt and The JSTOR Website
Drawing by © Perrier and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Transparent Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .2” [5 mm]
Found in Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 400 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with compressed, short, ovoid to subglobose pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong to lingulate-oblong, shortly contracted below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer through fall on a basal, erect, very thin, peduncle provided with a few sheaths, 1.4” [3.5 cm] long, rachis 1.8” [4.5 cm] long, flexous, 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8cm] long, 8 to 15 flowered inflorescence with thin, oval-apiculate, longer than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying live white flowers becoming hyaline when dried.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing good; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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