Bulbophyllum campos-portoi Brade 1951 SECTION Didactyle Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © Photo by and Orchidstudium

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Common Name or Meaning Campos Porto's Bulbophyllum [Brazilian Engineer & Orchid Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais state of Brazil in tree tops of primitive forests with bright light and air circulation as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with .6" [1.5 cm] between each, light green brown, smooth, ovoid, becoming 4 angled with age pseudobulbs carrying a single, dark green, lanceolate, deeply keeled leaf that blooms in the mid winter and mid spring on a basal, thin, erect, to 12" [30 cm] long, arching, 5 to 8 flowered inflorecence holding the flowers in the upper third.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994;

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