Bulbophyllum micropetaliforme Leite 1946 SECTION Napelli Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista and her The Orchidstudium Website

Common Name The Small Flowered Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janiero and Parana states of Brazil as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with close set, ovoid-conical, tetragonal pseudodbulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, acute, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect, 3.2" [8 cm] long overall, laxly many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum cribbianum Toscano 1992; Bulbophyllum micropetalum Barb.Rodr. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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