Bulbophyllum abbreviatum
{{short description|Species of orchid from Madagascar}}
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| name = Bulbophyllum abbreviatumRepertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis. 33: 198. 1924, Centralblatt für Sammlung und Veroffentlichung von Einzeldiagnosen neuer Pflanzen. Edited by Friedrich Fedde. Berlin
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- Bulbophyllum abbreviatum Rchb.f 1881
- Bulbophyllum trigonopus Rchb.f 1881
- Cirrhopetalum abbreviatum Rchb.f 1881
- Cirrhopetalum trigonopus Rchb.f 1881
- Peltopus greuterianus Szlach. and Marg.MS: Sieder A., Rainer H., Kiehn M. (2005): Draft-CITES checklist for Bulbophyllum and allied taxa (Orchidaceae). Vienna: Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna. [http://www.univie.ac.at/HBV/Bulbophyllum-Checklist/Bulbophyllum-Checklist_-_P2.pdf pdf version]
- Bulbophyllum ormerodianum Hermans 2007 (nomen superfluum)
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Bulbophyllum abbreviatum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum discovered in Madagascar and originally described by German botanist Rudolf Schlechter,Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 33: 198. 1924 from material collected by French botanist H. Perrier de la Bâthie in February 1912, which is now kept in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.[http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.P00097780 Holotype of Bulbophyllum abbreviatum Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE] at plants.jstor.org] accessed 15 February 2016
The plant is a pseudobulb epiphyte.
''Cirrhopetalum abbreviatum''
According to Seidenfadden this is a different species from Cirrhopetalum abbreviatum Rchb.f 1881,Seidenfadden in Notes on Cirrhopetalum 1973 however other sources disagree, notably the Conference of the Parties to CITES and associated Plants and Nomenclature Committees.
According to the Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families,{{Cite web|url=http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=40864|title = World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew}} Cirrhopetalum abbreviatum is a synonym of Bulbophyllum trigonopus, of which Bulbophyllum abbreviatum (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. ex Seidenf. as used in Dansk Bot. Ark. 29(1): 73 (1973) is a nomen illegitimum. This is not accepted by the Kew World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database and the World Checklist of Seed Plants 3.
References
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External links
- [http://bulbophyllum-checklist.bulbophyllum.at/ The Bulbophyllum-Checklist]
- [http://www.orchidspecies.com/indexbulb.htm The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia]
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