Bulbophyllum ellipticum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008

TYPE Drawing © by Schlechter

Common Name The Elliptic Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations around 900 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a stem-like, erect to suberect rhizome giving rise to superposed, very tightly adnate to the rhizome pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, ligulate or narrowly elliptic-ligulate, apiculate, near the middle, somewhat narrowed below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer, fall and winter o from the nodes of the rhizome, fascicled peduncle thinly filiform, c. .6 to .7" [1.5 to 1.75 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, above slightly widened, subulate-apiculate, much shorter than the ovary floral bract. P>J J Vermeullen states that "B. ellipticum Schltr. is most similar to Bulbophyllum eutoreton , but it differs in the presence of two ridges on the adaxial side of the lip, with a callus in between, as well as in the short, upward-curved stelidia."

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1:848 Schlechter 1913 drawing fide

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