Bulbophyllum alticola Schltr. 1912 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913

Side View of Flower Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Common Name The High Elevation Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1.65" [4.2 cm]

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 2400 to 3100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a short, creeping rhizome giving rose to ovoid, not angular, smooth or shallowly longitudinal grooved, pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, subcoriaceous, glabrous, lanceolate-ligulate, subacute, narrowing below intothe subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a basal, erect to suberect, filiform, single flowered, .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long inflorescence with elliptic, apiculate, clasping, much shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral braccts and carrying an erect to suberect flower.

Synonyms Hapalochilus alticola (Schltr.) Garay & W. Kittr 1985 publ. 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/1985 fide

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