Bulbophyllum ankaratranum Schltr. 1924 SECTION Lyraea [Lindl.] Moore 1877 Photo by Copyright ©, A Muller and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz

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Common Name The Ankaratra Bulbophyllum [A field in Madagascar]

Flower Size

Found in Madagascarmossy montane forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm ] between each ellipsoid to ovoid pseudobulb and carrying a 2, apical, erect, ligulate leavse that blooms in the summer through fall on an erect, 4.2 to 5.8" [10.5 to 14.5 cm] long, many flowered inflroescence with the flowers held in an apical cylindrical corymb

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1936/81;

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