Bulbophyllum pandurella Schltr. 1924

SECTION Elasmotopus Schlechter 1925

Photo by © Gerhard Vlcek and The Foto-Vision Website

Common Name or Meaning The Little Lute Shaped Bulbophyllum [refers to the lip shape]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in northern Madagascar in lichen, mossy forests at elevations of 1100 to 2000 meters as a mini-mniniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, elliptical, obtuse, attenuate at the base, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, [3 to 4.5 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with widely oval, acuminate floral bract.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Contribution a L'Etude des Orchidaceae Madagascar V Bosser 1965; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, DuPuy, 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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