Bulbophyllum jamaicense Cogn. 1909 SECTION Didactyle [Lindley] Cogn. 1902
Photo By © Christian Gegenbauer
Drawing By © N Oledrzynska
Common Name The Jamaican Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]
Found in Jamaica in open rocky woods at elevations around 150 to 1700 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with clustered, globose, wrinkled pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, ovate-lanceolate, dark green, leathery leaf that blooms in the winter through summer on a basal, 3.6" [9 cm] long, arching to pendant, racemose, 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence carrying membraneosu flowers.
"Similar to B antioquense and B lehmannianum but differs from them both in the lip form which is somewhat shorter and ovate-subrectangular vs linear to linear-pandurate". Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 7: 122 Cogniaux 1909
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing ok; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudon & Tobisch 1995; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:160 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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