Bulbophyllum caloglossum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Intervallatae Ridley 1897
Photos by © Ed de Vogel and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo By Neville Howcroft. Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site
Common Name The Beautiful Lipped Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1.72" [4.3 cm]
Found in Papua and New Guinea on tree trunks with little or no moss in montane forests around 500 to 1200 meters in elevation as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with distant, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, ovoid psuedobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, ligulate, obtuse, narrowly petiolate leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect becoming nodding, to 20" [50 cm] long, densly and successively single, many flowered, racemose inflorescence with ovate, subobtuse, two times shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/85 drawing fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 3 2001 photo;
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