Bulbophyllum antennatum Schltr. 1905 SECTION Lepanthanthe Schlechter 1913
Photos by © P Jongejan
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Antennae Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea in montane forests at elevations around 1300 to 2600 meters as a cool to cold growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to discoid to ovoid, .32 to 2.4" [.8 to 6 cm] apart, not laterally flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to obovate, tip rounded, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, peduncle 4.6 to 14" [11.5 to 35 cm] long, sometimes verrucose towards the tip, provided with 4 to 5 bracts, rachis erect, arching or nodding, up to 5.2" [13 cm], verrucose or not, 4.8 to 24" [12 to 60 cm] long, usually successively single, up to c. 100-flowered inflorescence with (slightly) cymbiform, elliptic to obovate, tip acute to acuminate, margins finely papillose; abaxially with a distinct, sometimes erose median keel floral bract
Schlechter states that the flowers are red, the petals ate white at the base, the lip dark red with little white ears and a white margin, and the column is white with a red foot.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/85 drawing fide; The Orchids of the High Mountains of New Guinea P. Van Royen 1979; Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermeullen 1993 drawing fide;
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