Bulbophyllum erythrostictum Ormerod 2005

SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008

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

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Common Name The Red Dotted Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 600 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a cauliform rhizome with close set, subparellel to the rhizome, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate-linear, apiculate, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the late fall and winter on a short, single flowered inflorescence with very small, much shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers have close red spots and the underside of the lip has a cushion of red papillae.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum polystictum Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as B polystictum Drawing fide;

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