Bulbophyllum ikongoense H.Perrier 1937 SECTION Ikongoense G A Fischer & J J Vermuellen 2014
TYPE For the section
Photos by © Rajoavelona and Naturalist.org Website
Common Name The Ikongo Bulbophyllum [a town in eastern Madagascar]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm] long
Found in south central Madagascar at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] between each narrwo, elongate, pale yellow, 4 winged pseudobulbs carrying 2 green, narrowly oblonceolate, very longly, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, shorter than the leaves, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, 6 to 7, large, acute, keeled winged bracted, slightly dense, many flowered inflorescence with a heavily reclining 1.8 to 2" [4.5 to 5 cm] long, thicker than the apex of the peduncle rachis and with acute, slightly shorter than the flower floral bracts,
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 & Hermans 2009; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroideae Pt 3 Pridgeon, Cribb Chase & Ramussen 2014; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;
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