Bulbophyllum lyperostachyum Schltr. 1924 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

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

Full shade Cool Cold EARLY Summer

Common Name The ?Bulbophyllum

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

Found in northern Madagascar in lichen rich evergreen forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] between each compressed to the substrate, cylindical-conical, enveloped by pale brown sheaths in youth, hard, very thick, rugose pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, ligulate, attenuate into the canaliculate-petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a basal, erect, peduncle 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm] long, shorter than the leaf, 2.4 to 3.6" [9 to 11 cm] long overall, loosely 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with oval-acuminate, 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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