
Bulbophyllum densum Thouars 1822
Another Inflorescence in situ Photos © Roger Van Vugt and his P Base Orchid Photo Website
Common Name The Dense Bulbophyllum [refers to the flowers on the inflorescence]
Flower Size
Found in Madagascar, the Mascarenes and Reunion as a small sized epiphyte with an ovoid pseudobulb carrying 2, apical, linear, apically unequally bilobed, basally conduplicate leaves that blooms on a slightly thickened towards the apex, dense, successively several to many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Phyllorkis densa (Thouars) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987;
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