Bulbophyllum hamatipes J.J. Sm. 1918 SECTION Sestochilos [Breda] Benth & Hook.f. 1883
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photos courtesy of Bob Fallon Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives
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Flower Size 1 1/4" [3.1 cm]
Found in Java as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a creeping and very branched rhizome with .6" [1.5 cm] between each conical, green in youth, becoming yellow with age pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, lanceolate, acute, petiolate leaf that is dark green above and lighter below that blooms in the summer and fall on a short to 2" to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that has strongly fragrant, musky scented flowers.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum winckelii J.J.Sm. 1918
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 2 1985 photo fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 2 2005; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016;
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