Bulbophyllum paterangeli Campacci 2018 SECTION Xiphizusa Rchb.f. 1852
Flowers Plant and flowers TYPE Drawing Photos/Drawing by Marcos Campacci Common Name The Pater Angel Bulbophyllum [refers tothe community near where the orchid was discovered]
Flower Size .2" [.5 mm] wide
Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil in sparse forests at elevations around 500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, creeping epiphyte with an inconspicuous rhizome giving rise to subsperical, apically flattened, slightly tetragonal, green pseudobulbs enveloped by evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, green, arched, subcoriaceous, oblong, acute, narrowing below into conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, racemose, slightly arched, rigid, ocher colored, with membraneous, off-white, acute bracts, to [17 cm] long, simultaneously 15 flowered inflorescence with persistent, green, triangular, very small floral bracts and carrying alternating, pendent flowers
This species is similar to P plumosum but it has more intensely colored yellow flowers and a differnt structure both vegetatively and florally.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Coletanea de Orquideas Brasileiras Novas Especies Vol 15 Campacci & Silva 2019 photo/drawing fide
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