Bulbophyllum groeneveldtii J.J.Sm. 1920 SECTION Hirtula Ridley 1908
Photo by © J J Vermeullen 1991
Photo by © Peter Maxwell and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name Goeneveldt's Bulbophyllum [Dutch original Collector of species in 1900's]
Flower Size .015" [3.7mm]
Found in Sumatra and Borneo in high montane forests on branches of shrubs and small trees in moss pads at elevations of 1100 to 1300 meters as a small sized warm growing epiphyte with close set, globose but obliquely depressed pseudobulbs carrying pendent, strap-shaped, shiny pale green above, paler and dull beneath, tough, obtuse, gradually narrowing into the channeled in the upper half, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall through winter on a basal, much shorter than the leaves, 3.6 to 5" [9 to 12.5 cm] long, thin, terete, thickening towards the apex, finely hairy, lax, successively few, many flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, as long as to shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermuellen 1991 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Gard. Bull. Singapore 54: 127 J J Verm. 2002 drawing/photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide;
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