Bulbophyllum callosum Bosser 1965 SECTION Lyraea

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Bob Fallon Copyright ©, and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

Flower Closeup ? Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

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Common Name The Caloused Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .1" [2mm]

Found on the borders of Lake Mantasoa in Madagascar in humid , mossy, evergreen forests at elevations of 1300 to 1400 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] between each 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, oblong leaves that blooms in the earlier spring on a cylindrical, 14 to 18" [35 to 45 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with the fleshy rachis held at an angle to the stem.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide to Bob Fallon

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