Bulbophyllum perrieri Schltr. 1913 SECTION Pachychlamys Schlechter 1924

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common NamePerrier's Bulbophyllum [French Botanist in Madagascar 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in northern Madagascar in humid, moss and lichen rich evergreen forests on plateau at elevations around 1500 to 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with narrowly conical, close set pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by thick, loose, obtuse to bilobed apically sheaths and carrying 2 apical, oblanceolate, gradually attenuate into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early summer on a basal, erect, peduncle .48" [1.2 cm] long, enveloped by 5 to 6 thin, adpressed sheaths, rachis bent, 1.88 to 4.6" [4.7 to 11.2 cm] long overall, somewhat densely 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence with oval, wide, nearly as long as the flower floral bracts carrying glabrous flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo good

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