Bulbophyllum dichaeoides Schltr. 1913 SECTION Monanthes [Bl] Avery. 1994
Photo by © Geoff Stocker and their Orchids of New Guinea Website
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and their Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name The Dichaea-Like Bulbophyllum [probably refers to it's pendant growing habit]
Flower Size .32” [8 mm]
Found in New Guinea on trees in lowland forests at lower elevations as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with minute pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect-patent, elliptic, obtuse and miutely apiculate apically, fleshy leaf that blooms in the summer on a .6" [1.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a cucullate, shorter than the ovary. floral bract and non-resupinate flowers
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1982 drawing fide Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001
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