Bulbophyllum atrorubens Schltr. 1906 SECTION Brachystachyae Benth. & Hook. f. 1883
Photo by © Jean Jacques Villegente
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Common Name The Dark Purple Bulbophyllum
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Found in Sulawesi, New Guinea, Moluccas, New Caledonia, Samoa and Vanuatu in lowland forrests to mossy montane forests at elevations of 200 to 1400 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate, obtuse, minutely tridenticulate apically, yellow green, gradually narrowing below into the .8" [2 cm] long petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall, late winter and early summer on a basal, erect, clavate, slender, 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, densely many [10 to 16] flowered inflorescence with acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying the flowers in a dense, subglobose head.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum globiceps Auct. Thomas & Schuitmann 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; Native Orchids of New Caledonia New Caledonian Orchid Society 1995 photo ok; Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996 ; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Vermeullen & O'Byrne 2011 photo ok;
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