Bulbophyllum breve Schltr. 1913 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913 Photo by © Peter O'Byrne
Photo by © P Jongejan
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EARLY 
Common Name The Short Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea in lowland forests on trees at elevations around 300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to ovoid-conic pseudobulbs and carrying a single, apical, erect, glabrous, ligulate, apiculate to shortly excise, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the later winter and early spring on a basal, short, erect, provided with a few small, inconspicuous peduncle-scales, single flowered inflorescence with an ovate, apiculate, distinctly shorter than the ovary floral bract
Synonyms Hapalochilus brevis (Schltr.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide
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