Bulbophyllum bracteatum F.M.Bailey 1891 SECTION Adelopetalum [Fitz] J.J. Verm. 1993 Photo courtesy ofGreg and Kerri Steenbeeke and their Orkology Kreations Website

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Common Name The Bracteate Bulbophyllum - The Blotched Pineapple Orchid

Flower Size 1/8" [.5 cm]

Found as a unifoliate species from south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales at elevations of 700 meters and below in coastal lowlands on the upper branches on rainforest trees with bright light as an epiphyte or occasional lithophyte forming dense mats with crowded, pale green to yellowish, deeply ribbed, sulcate ridges pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, tough, pale green to yellowish leaves that blooms in the spring on a basal, erect, thin, 4" [10 cm] long, length of the leaf inflorescence that has an umbel of many [24] flowers at the apex.

Synonyms Adelopetalum bracteatum [F. M. Bailey] Fitzg. 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 6 2001 photo; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 2 2003 photo; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Adelopetalum bracteatum

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