Bulbophyllum cycloglossum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Peltopus Schlechter 1913
Drawing © by Vermeullen
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Hewrbaria Website
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Common Name The Rounded Tongue Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found only in New Guinea in range forests at elevations around 2500 to 3400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid, not to hardly flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to obovate, obtuse to acute, narrowing into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter through spring on a very short, few bracted, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, 1.3-1.8 mm, tip obtuse. much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Schlechter states that the species has a column that differs from the Bulbophyllum form and the petals are very small as well as the flowers are dark carmine red
Synonyms
References > W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlecter 1913 drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermeullen 1993 drawing fide
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