Bulbophyllum erinaceum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Lepanthanthe Schlechter 1913
Photo by © Peter Jongejan and their Orchids of New Guinea Website
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Common Name The Bristly Bulbophyllum [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size
Found in eastern New Guinea on trees in lower montane forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with .2 to .4" [5 mm to 10 mm] between each cylindrical pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, apiculate, attenuate below leaf that blooms late winter, spring and summer on a racemose, erect to archig , erinaceous-asperous, delicate, fractiflex, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, subdensely and successively many flowered inflorescence with triangular, tip acuminate, abxially with a distinct, deeply lacerate median keel or not floral bracts
Synonyms Bulbophyllum nephropetalum Schltr. 1919; Trachyrhachis erinacea (Schltr.) Szlach. 2007; Trachyrhachis nephropetala (Schltr.) Szlach. 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1982 drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermeullen 1993 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermeullen 1993 as B nephropetalum not = B paulianum drawing/photo ; Phytotaxa 166 (2): 101–113 J.J.Verm., Schuit. & de Vogel 2014 as Bulbophyllum nephropetalum
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