Bulbophyllum ipanemense Hoehne SECTION Didactyle
Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto
Common Name or Meaning The Impanema Bulbophyllum [A mountain in Sao Paulo State Brazil]
Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm ]
Found in the Pedra Branca area of Minas Gerais as well as the state of Minas De Gerais, Bahia, Rio De Janiero and Espiritu Santo states of Brazil at elevations around 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing lithophytic orchid with 4 angled, elliptic pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coraceous, linear, obtuse, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall in situ on a basal erect, green, successively 2 to 4, many flowered inflorescence
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Pabst & Dungs 1975; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005
