Bulbophyllum jumelleanum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Pantoblepharon Schlechter 1925
Drawing by © Perrier TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Hooded Jumelle's Bulbophyllum [French botanist earlier 1900's]
Flower Size less than .16" long [less than 4mm] long
Found in northern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests on plateau at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with .32 to .48" [.8 to 1.2 cm] between each globose pseudobulb carrying 2, apical, flat, thick, oblong leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, erect, very thin, carrying several small sheaths, 2.8" [7 cm] long overall, loosely 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence with widely oval-cucullate-apiculate, longer than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying an almost transparent flower.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Adansonia n.s., 5: 391 Bossser 1969 Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo good
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