Bulbophyllum cadetioides Schltr. 1913 SECTION Monanthes [Bl] Avery. 1994
Photo by © Peter Jongejan and their Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name The Cadetia-Like Bulbophyllum [refers to the plant?]
Flower Size 1/8" [.4 cm]
Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with minute, oblong-cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong, minutely apiculate leaf that is shortly petiolate and blooms in the fall on an erect, 1/4" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with cucullate bracts
This species and B punamense are considered to be synomonous and if so then B punamense is the correct name. I have left them separate for now pending further research.
Synonyms Diphyes cadetioides (Schltr.) Szlach. & Rutk. 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1982 drawing fide
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