Bulbophyllum abbreviatum Rchb.f 1881 SECTION Cirrhopetalum Photos courtesy of Bob Fallon Copyright ©, and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

Part shade Hot

Common Name The Abbreviated Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

This miniature sized, epiphytic species occuring in northeastern Madagascar at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte and has globose to conical pseudobulbs with a single, apical, elliptic, petiolate leaf and blooms on a basal few flowered inflorescence holding the flowers in an apical loose umbel. .

See also Bulbophyllum trigonopus, often cited as synomonous with this name but if the pictures from Garay are correct then they are distinct species. I await more information.

Synonyms Cirrhopetalum abbreviatum Rchb. f. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfaden 1973 drawing?

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