Bulbophyllum lichenophylax Schltr. 1924 SECTION Lichenophylax Schlechter 1924

TYPE For the section

Plant and Flower in situ Madagascar

Photos by © Olivier Reilhes and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

deep Shade Warm Cool Summer

Common Name or Meaning The Lichen-Loving Bulbophyllum

Flower Size tiny

Found in northern and central Madagascar in mossy and lichen-rich forests at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with very small pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, lanceolate-linear leaves that blooms in the mid summer on a setiform, provided with a small bract, single flowered inflorescence with lanceolate-acute floral bracts

CAUTION!!! I have no way of verifying this determination. References that I have refer the flower color to dark, dull red, but no drawing. Not a game changing factor but.....

Synonyms Bulbophyllum quinquecornutum H.Perrier 1937

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as B quinquecornutum; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Adansonia n.s., 5: 381 Bossser 1969 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, DuPuy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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