Bulbophyllum vakonae Hermans 2007 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

Drawing © by Perrier and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz

EARLY

Common Name Vakon's Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .2" long [5 mm] long

Found in Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 800 to 900 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a thick rhizome with .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] between each ovoid pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, shortly contracted basally into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, short, peduncle 1.2 to 1.4" [3 to 3.5 cm] long, rachis to 3.2" [8 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with thin, lanceolate-acute, nearly twice as long as the pedicel floral bracts.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum ochrochlamys Schltr. 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as B ochrochlamys drawing fide; *Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo good; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madacascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo good

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