Bulbophyllum occultum Thouars 1822 SECTION Calamaria Schlechter
Closer Yet Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
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Common Name The Yellow Bracted Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 5/8" [1.6 cm]
Found in the forests of Madagascar and the Mascarenes at elevations around sealevel to 1500 meters as a highly variable, small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 1 to 1 1/4" [2.5 to 3 cm] between each oval, tetragonal-winged yellowish pseudobulb enveloped in youth by 5 unequally sized, sheaths and carrying a 2 apical, thick, very flat oblong leaves that are slightly attenuate towards the base that blooms in the fall through spring on a 6" to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, clad apically with several loose, evasive sheaths and a recurved rhachis widening into 3 rows of brownish yellow bracts each one completly cover the several flowers at the apice of the inflorescence.
Synonyms Dendrochilum occultum (Thouars) Lindl 1830; Diphyes occulata (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Diphyes occulta (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Phyllorchis occulta (Thouars) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981 as B occulatum
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