Bulbophyllum pervillei Rolfe 1891 SECTION Pantoblepharon Schlechter 1925
photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Collection Sheet by © Kew and their Plants of the World Website
Common Name Perville's Bulbophyllum [French orchid enthusiast late 1800's]
Flower Size .2 to .24" long [5 to 6 mm] long
Found in northern and eastern Madagascar in coastal forests at elevations around sea level to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, flattened, suboprbicular pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, elliptical leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a basal, erect, subfiliform, peduncle 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, with 6 to 7, narrowly appressed, thin, scarious sheaths, rachis [10 to 13 cm] long, reclining to horizontal, 8 to 11.2" [20 to 28 cm] long overall, thin, loose, 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence with acute, half the length of the flower floral bracts and carrying glabrous flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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