Bulbophyllum ptiloglossum H.Wendl. & Kraenzl. 1897 SECTION Lupulina
Plant and Inflorescence Photos in situ Montagne D'Ambre, Madagascar courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
Common Name or Meaning The Feathery Bulbophyllum [refers to the lip and it's fine red hairs]
Flower Size 1/4" [8mm]
Found in Madagascar in forests as a miniature sized epiphyte with ovoid, subtetragonical pseudobulb enveloped basally by an oval sheath and carryiing an apical, erect, linear-ligulate, bilobulbate apically, compressed basally leaves that blooms in the winter 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
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981
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