Bulbophyllum sphaerobulbum H.Perrier 1937 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

TYPE Drawing by © Perrier and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Spherical Pseudobulb Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .24 to .32" [6 to 8 mm]

Found in Madagascar in in humid lowland evergreen forests at elevations around 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with globose pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, oblong leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a basal, erect, 5.6 to 6.8" [14 to 17 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009

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