Drawing by © A Krol Common Name or Meaning Kegel's Bulbophyllum [Orchid Gardener In Halle Germany 1800's]
Flower Size
Found in Trinidad, Surinam and and northern Brazil at low elevations as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 1 to 1.6" [2.5 to 4 cm] between each, pyriform-ovoid pseudobulb and carrying 2, apical, ligulate-lanceolate, subobtuse, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the later summer on a basal, erect, terete, not thickened, peduncle to 3.6 to 4.8" [9 to 12 cm] long, rachis 6 to 13.2" [15 to 33 cm] long, 80 to 120 flowered, racemose inflorescence with verruculose longer than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.
"Similar to B sordidum, Bulbophyllum pinelianum (A.Rich.) Ormerod 2016 and B bracteolatum, but differs in having lateral sepals connate together in the lower third vs lateral sepals that are connate at the base only." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bol. Inst. Bot. Univ. Guadalajara 3: 9 1995 publ. 1997; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:164 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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