Bulbophyllum namoronae Bosser 1971

SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

Photo by © Jean Michel Hervouet

Common Name The Namorona Bulbophyllum [a town of southcentral eastern Madagascar]

Flower Size .2 to .28" [5 to 7 mm] long

Found in southcentral eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 900 to 1100 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to cylindrical , 1.4 to 2" " [3.5 to 5 cm] cm] between each, yellowish pseudobulb enveloped basally by 3 to 4, brown, membraneous sheaths carrying 2, apical, linear to oblong, flat, obliquely erect, leathery, obtuse and notched apically, narrowing an dcompressed intothe short, peudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a basal, erect, peduncle 7.2 to 8.8" [18 to 22 cm] long, provided with 6 to 7 nodes each with a membraneous, acute, ovate, much shorter than the internode, bract, rachis 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, 10 to 12" [25 to 30 cm] long overall, fleshy, thickened, somewhat densely many flowered inflorescence with deltoid, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carryig fleshy flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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