Bulbophyllum prismaticum Thouars 1822 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925
Plant and Flower in situ Reunion
Photos by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website
specimen sheet by © Jany Renz
Photo by © Reunion Blog
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Common Name The Prismatic Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .28" [7 mm]
Found in Reunion in humid forests at elevationd of 500 to 900 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a compressed, elliptical pseudobulb carrying 2, apical, linear, apically unequally bilobed, basally conduplicate leaves that blooms in the later spring on a basal, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, successively several to many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Lyraea prismatica (Thouars) Lindl. 1830; Phyllorchis prismatica (Thouars) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing fide;
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