Bulbophyllum johannulii J.J.Verm. 1982 SECTION Epicranthes (Bl.) Hook.f.

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Common Name Johanul's Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in the Bismark Archipelago in lower montane forests as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a thick, pendulous, branched rhizome with 3/4" [1.8 cm] between each ovoid, sharply quadrangular, lightly suffused with red pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, lanceolate to acuminate, darker green than the pseudobulbs, not shiny, margins somewhat recurved, smooth, almost sessile leaf that blooms on a very short, single flowered inflorescence with short, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Epicranthes johannulii (J.J.Verm.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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