Bulbophyllum jayjayveeanum P.O'Byrne & P.T.Ong 2018 SECTION Rhinanthera J J Verm, Schuit. & de Vogel 2014

Photo by © P T Ong and The Die Orchidee Website

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Common Name J J V's Bulbophyllum [Jaap Jan Vermeulen, Dutch Botanist and Bulbophyllum expert extrordinaire current]

Flower Size .36" [9 mm]

Found in penninsular Malaysia in the Cameron Highlands in montane forests at elevations below 2100 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to ovoid, green, smooth, pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect, gree, leathery, oblong, obtuse, narrowing below intothe terete, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a peduncle erect-patent, to 11.6" [29 cm] long, cylindrical, green with maroon marks, with 4 sterile bracts, rachis at a 45 degree angle to the peduncle, pendent, to 1.6" [4 cm] long, to 13.2" [33 cm] long overall, spirally arranged, all facing outwards, very crowded, simultaneously to 50 flowered inflorescence with green with maroon marks, acute floral bracts and carrying not wide spreading flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidee (Hamburg) 4(5)E: 32 Ong & O'Byrne 2018 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 82 #3 2018 Photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #2 2019 photo fide;

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