Bulbophyllum ptiloglossum H.Wendl. & Kraenzl. 1897 SECTION Lupulina G A Fischer in prep
Photos in situ Montagne D'Ambre, Madagascar by Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
Common Name or Meaning The Feathery Bulbophyllum [refers to the lip and it's fine red hairs]
Flower Size 1/4" [8mm]
Found in Madagascar in forests as a miniature sized epiphyte with an ovoid, subtetragonical pseudobulb enveloped basally by an oval sheath and carrying an apical, erect, linear-ligulate, bilobulbate apically, compressed basally leaves that blooms in the winter on a basal, thin, longer than the leaf, peduncle provided with reddish, narrowly adpressed bracts, lateral then pendant, to 5" [12.5 cm] long, thicker through the rachis, rachis nearlyy reclining, several flowered inflorescence with pale, triangular-acute, twice as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007;
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