Bulbophyllum obtusatum Schltr. 1924 SECTION Lupulina G A Fischer in prep

Photo by © Silvia Artuso and The New Phytologist Vol 232 #2 Artuso, Gamisch, Staedler, Schoenberger and Comes 2021

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Common Name Manara's Bulbophyllum [Venezuelan Original Collector of Species 1900's]

Flower Size .4" [5 mm]

Found in northern and northwestern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests and dry forests at elevations of sea level to 1400 meters as a miniature to just small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] between each oblong, 6 angled, yellow pseudobulbs carrying narrowly elliptic leaves that blooms in the fall on a basal, 4.4 o 6" [11 to 15 cm] long, bracts in 4 rows, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Bulbophyllum obtusum Jum. & H.Perrier 1912

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; The New Phytologist Vol 232 #2 Artuso, Gamisch, Staedler, Schoenberger and Comes 2021 photo fide

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