Bulbophyllum dendrochiloides Schltr. 1913 SECTION Macrouris Schlechter 1913

Photos by Ed De Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Inflorescence

Photo by © Art Vogel

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Common Name The Dendrochilum-Like Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .25" [7.5mm]

Found in New Guinea in forests on trees at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with .6 to 1" between each conical-cylindric pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, linear, obtuse, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 3.6" [9cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with minute floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914 drawing fide

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