Bulbophyllum conchidioides Ridl.1885 SECTION Lepiophylax Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

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Common Name The Shell-Like Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1/10" [.25 cm]

Found in Madagascar in humid evergreen forests and in lichen rich, mossy forests at the tops of hills at elevations of 900 to 1400 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte on mossy rocks with minute, ovoid to subglobose pseudobulbs carrying a single small leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a 1" [2.5 cm] long, few [1 to 5] flowered inflorescence holding the flowers above the leaf

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1936/81; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo could be

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