Bulbophyllum fasciculatum Schltr.1913
SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008
Photos by © Peter Jongejan/TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and their Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name The Fasciculate Bulbophyllum [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a stem-like rhizome giving rise to close set, subparallel to the rhizome pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic-ligulate, minutely apiculate leaf that blooms in the winter on a very short, fasciculate, provided with a few small bracts, single flowered inflorescence with very small, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1982 drawing fide; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129195, 2008 Vermuellen
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