Bulbophyllum mangenotii Bosser 1965 SECTION Lichenophylax Schlechter 1924

TYPE Drawing by © Jean Bosser and Adansonia n.s., 5: 378 Bossser 1965

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Common Name Mangenot's Bulbophyllum [French Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in central Madagascar in Araucaria forests at elevations of 1200 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a thin, repent, branching rhizome giving rise to applanate-ovoid, with .04 to .016" [1 to 4 mm] between each pseudobulb carrying 2 apical, erect, lanceolate, acute, subsessile to shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later winter and spring on a horizontal, thin, 1.6 to 2.2" [4 to 5.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Adansonia n.s., 5: 378 Bossser 1969 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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