Bulbophyllum sciaphile Bosser 1965 SECTION Pantoblepharon Schlechter 1925
Photos courtesy of Rudi Hromniak and his © and his Orchid Webpage
Common Name The Shadow-Loving Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1/4" [8 to 9 mm]
Found in central Madagascar in humid, mossy, evergreen forests at eleavtions of 1300 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, subglobose pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, spreading, elliptic to sub-orbicular leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, 1.8 to 2.4" [4.5 to 6 cm] long, 1 to 5 flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Adansonia n.s., 5: 391 Bossser 1969 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide
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