Bulbophyllum toilliezae Bosser 1965 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

TYPE Drawing by © Jean Bosser and Adansonia n.s., 5: 398 Bossser 1969

LATE EARLY

Common Name Poilliez's Bulbophyllum [Madagascan Laboratory Assistant 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in east northeastern Madagascar in mid level montane forests at elevations around 900 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a thick, repent, few branching rhizome giving rise to ovoid, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] between each, yellowish, smooth, 4 to 5 acute angled pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, oblong-ligualte, slightly coriaceous, obtuse, more or less emarginate, narrowly subpetiolate base leaves leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a rigid, more or less pendulous, peduncle3.2" [8 cm] long, provided with a basal bract, rachis [13 to 14 cm] long, 18 to 22 flowered inflorescence with cymbiform, widely ovate, acute floral bracts and carrying susessile, yellowish green flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Adansonia n.s., 5: 403 Bossser 1969 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 drawing/photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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