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Orchid Species: Bulbophyllum occultum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Bulbophyllum occultum is an orchid species identified by Thouars in 1822.
ORIGIN: Found in the humid evergreen coastal and lowland forests of Madagascar and the Mascarenes at elevations around sea-level to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: 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 spring through fall 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.
FLOWER SIZE: 5/8 inch [1.6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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