Bulbophyllum longivaginans H.Perrier 1937 SECTION Pachychlamys Schlechter 1924

TYPE Drawing by © Perrier and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Long Sheathed Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .26 to .28" [6.5 to 7 mm]

Found in east central Madagascar in humid evergreen forests on plateau at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with oval-lanceolate pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by thin rigid, long, attenuate-acute sheaths and carrying carrying 2 apical, oblanceolate-linear, long and narrow, attenuate and petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early summer on a basal, erect, peduncle 4 to 4.8" [10 to 12 cm] long, thin, shorter than the leaf, rachis bent, 5 to 6" [12.5 to 15 cm] long overall, loosely 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by long, greyish sheaths and above by 3 to 4 shorter ones with thick, narrow, acute, concave, half as long as the flower floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009

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