Bulbophyllum platypodum H.Perrier 1937 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925
Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing by © Perrier and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Pointed Calyx Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .3" [7.5 mm] long
Found in central and east central Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations around 400 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, oblanceolate leaves that blooms spring on an erect, very slender, flattened peduncle to 12.8" [32 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with subdistichous flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puys Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo good;
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