Bulbophyllum teimosense E.C.Smidt & Borba 2009 SECTION Xiphizusa Rchb.f. 1852

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LATE EARLY

Common Name The Serra do Teimoso Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in southern Bahia state of Brazil in native Atlantic forests as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with deltoid, transversely elliptic, green, smooth pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, flat, acute, constricted below into the base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a basal, erect, cylindrical, to 6" [15 cm] long, rachis to 2.4" [6 cm], pendulous, thin, about 10 flowered inflorescence with an inconspicuous basal bract, others above not imbricating, and on the rachis sessile, not imbricate bracts and carrying simultaneously opening, pendent flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Two New Species of Bulbophyllum [Orchidaceae] Of Brazil Smidt & Borba Novon Vol 19 No 1 2009 drawing fide;

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