Bulbophyllum citricolor J.J.Sm. 1932 SECTION Stachysanthes (Bl.) J.J. Verm. & P. O’Byrne 2008
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Drawing by © Schlechter and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Lemon Yellow Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in western Sumatra as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing, creeping epiphyte with .6" [1.5 cm] between each disc-shaped pseudobulb carrying a single, fleshy, narrowly oblong, obtuse, narrowing abruptly into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, basal, peduncel 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, with 6 bracts, rachis keeled, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, longer than the leaf, many flowered inflorescence with the flowers facing in all directions.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum citrellum J.J.Sm. 1927
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001;
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