Bulbophyllum brachypus (Schltr.) J.J.Verm., Schuit. & de Vogel 2014 SECTION Pedilochilus [Schlechter] J J Verm & O'Byrne 2011
Photo by © Graham Corbin and The Orchids of New Guinea Website
TYPE Drawing of Pedilochilus brachypus by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Short Column Foot Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in New Guinea in forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, obtuse, narrowly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, .4" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Schlechter states that the flowers are a thickly spotted with red like B pedilochilus
Synonyms *Pedilochilus brachypus Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/85 as Pedilochilus brachypus drawing fide; *Phytotaxa 166 (2): 101–113 J.J.Verm., Schuit. & de Vogel 2014
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