Bulbophyllum minutum Thouars 1822 photo by © Rogier Van Vugt and Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Herbaria Specimen Herbarium Specimen © Maintained by Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Part Shade Hot spring THROUGH MIDFall

Common Name The Tiny Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Madagascar?, Mascarene and Reunion in semi-deciduous forests at elevations of sea level to 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with an orbicular pseudobulb carrying two, apical, shortly elliptic, truncate, apically bilobed, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on an erect, successively few to several flowered inflroescence

Synonyms Bulbophyllum implexum Jum. & H.Perrier 1912; Phyllorkis minuta (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; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb And Bosser 2007

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