Bulbophyllum nutans (Thouars) Thouars 1822 SECTION Lemuraea

Photo by © Rogier Van Vugt and his P base Orchid Photo Website

Inflorescence Photo in situ Montagne D'Ambre, Madagascar courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Nodding Bulbophyllum [refers to the flowers positiion]

Flower Size .4"[1 cm]

Found in Zanzabar and Madagascar in humid forests on shady rocks as a miniature sized lithophyte or epiphyte with ovoid, subtetragonical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by an oval sheath and carrying an apical, erect, linear-ligulate, bilobulbate apically, compressed basally leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on a basal, thin, longer than the leaf, lateral then pendant, thicker through the rachis, several flowered, inflorescence with reddish, narrowly adpressed bracts and triangular-acute floral bracts.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum ambohitrense H.Perrier 1937; Bulbophyllum nutans var. variifolium (Schltr.) Bosser 1965; Bulbophyllum variifolium Schltr. 1924; *Phyllorchis nutans Thouars 1819;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1936/1981; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo

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