Bulbophyllum vestitum Bosser 1971

SECTION Pachychlamys Schlechter 1924

TYPE Collection Sheet by © Jean Bosser and The Museeum National D'Histoire Naturelle WebSite

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Three Lines Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .8" [2 cm] long

Found in eastern Madagascar in humid mossy evergreen forests at elevations 500 to 1100 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical-conical pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, linear leaves that blooms in the late fall, winter and early spring on a basal, erect, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, 15 to 25 flowered inflorecence.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum vestitum var. meridionale Bosser 1971

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 as B vestitum var. meridionale; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 as B vestitum var. meridionale; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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