Bulbophyllum bracteolatum Lindl. 1838 SECTION Bulbophyllaria [Rchb.f] Griseb. 1864TYPE for the section
Photo by © Karl Senghas
Inflorescence Photo by © Jardin Soloy
TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Lindley
Drawing Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
Common Name The Small Bract Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found from French Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia and Brazil at elevations around 600 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with deeply ridged, narrowly ovoid-conical, strongly tetragon, slightly oblique pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few sheaths and carrying 2, apical, rigid, strongly coriaceous, patent, slightly recurved in the apical half, slightly concave to sub-planeate, narrowly oblong, obtuse, gradually narrows below into the short, petiolate base leaf and blooms on a terete becoming swollen towards the apex, erect then arching, 12" [30 cm] long, laxly, many flowered inflorescence enveloped below by submembraneous, distant, obtuse, tubular bracts.
"Similar to Bulbophyllum pinelianum (A.Rich.) Ormerod 2016 but separated by the rough glandular papillate undersurface of the lip lamina vs verruculose on the upper surface
Synonyms Bolbophyllaria bracteolata (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1852; Bolbophyllaria sordida Rchb.f 1861; Phyllorchis bracteolata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis pachyrhyncha A.Rich. ex Benth.1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24: t. 57 Lindley 1838 Drawing fide
Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 934 Rchb.f 1852 as Bolbophyllaria bracteolata
Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 242 Rchb.f 1861 as Bolbophyllaria sordida;
J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 299 Bentham 1881 as Pleurothallis pachyrhyncha;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 677 Kuntze 1891 as Phllorkis bracteolata;
Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959;
Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok;
Die Orchideen lieferung 13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae 1983;
The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide;
Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001;
Orchids of French Guiana Szlachetko, Veyret, Mynik-Ejsmont, Sawicka, Ruthkowski and Baranow 2012 photo/drawing fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:166 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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