Bulbophyllum kelelense Schltr. 1913 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913Photo by Ed de Vogel

TYPE Drawing Drawing by Schlechter And The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Kelel Bulbophyllum [A town in New Guinea]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm] wide

Found in the New Guinea on trees in lowland forests at elevations around 200 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to clustered, cylindrical-ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, erect, oblong-ligulate, apiculate, glabrous, narrowing below into base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a very short, provided with a few small sheaths, single flowered inflorescence with minute, triangular, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are red.

Synonyms Hapalochilus kelelensis (Schltr.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/85 drawing fide

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