Bulbophyllum vulcanorum H.Perrier 1938 SECTION Lyraea Photos in situ Montagne D'Ambre, Madagascar courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

Common Name or Meaning The Volcano Living Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 3/8 to 1/4" [7.5 to 8 mm]

Found in northern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with ovoid, or subspherical pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, erect, elliptic, contracted shortly basally leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, to 20" [50 cm] long, apically yellow inflorescencewith 5 to 6 distant, thin, very appressed sheaths and oval-triangular slightly acute floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1936/1981; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009

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