Bulbophyllum dracunculus J.J.Verm. 2000 SECTION Hirtula Ridley 1908
Photos by © Afaho Pakeha Hoya
Photo by © Nakato and Nakato Orchids Website
Common Name or Meaning
Flower Size .36" [9mm]
Found in Sabah Borneo in lower montane forests in shrubby vegetation at elevations around 800 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an close set, ovoid pseudobulb carrying a single apical, erect, elliptic to ovate, obtuse to acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on an erect, peduncle 4 to 7.2" [10 to 18 cm] long, provided with c. 4 bracts, rhachis not thickened, 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm] long, glabrous, successively single, 11 to 20 flowered inflorescence with triangular, slightly acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 Wood 1997 as B polygaliforme drawing/photo fide; Gard. Bull. Singapore 54: 149 J J Verm. 2002 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide;
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