Bulbophyllum elegantius Schltr. 1913 SECTION Monanthes [Bl] Avery. 1994

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Very Elegant Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found only in New Guinea in range forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with elliptical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-ligulate, minutely apiculate, attenuate into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a setiform, few bracted, 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with very small, almost 3 times shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying noe respupinate flowers

Schlechter states that the flower color is pink and the lip is green.

Synonyms Diphyes elegantior (Schltr.) Szlach. & Rutk. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide

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