Bulbophyllum insolitum Bosser 1971 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

Photo by © Landy Rita and The I Naturalist Website

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Jean Bosser

Full shadeHot LATE spring

Common Name The Uncommon Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .18" [4.5 mm]

Found in eastern Madagascar in humid lowland forests as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a branching rhizome enveloped by sheaths and giving rise to flattened, ovoid-oblong pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, leathery, obovate leaves that blooms in the the spring on a short, single flowered inflorescencece

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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; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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