Bulbophyllum clavatum Thouars 1822 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925
Plant and Flowers in situ Reunion
Photo by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website
Drawing by © Thouars
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EARLY
Common Name The Club Shaped Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in the Mascarenes and Reunion as a small sized epiphyte with an ovoid pseudobulb carrying 2, apical, linear, apically bilobed, bsally clasping leaves that blooms later winter and early spring on a thickened towards the apex, clavate, successively several to many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Bolbophyllaria clavata (Thouars) S.Moore 1877; Phyllorchis clavata (Thouars) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing fide;
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