Bulbophyllum lehmannianum Kraenzl. 1899 SECTION Didactyle [Lindley] Cogn. 1902
TYPE Collection Sheet by © Smidt
Photo by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Valdiviesso
Common Name or Meaning The Wingless Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Antioquia and Huila departments of Colombia and Zulia state of Venezuela at elevations of 1000 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to ovoid, appoximate, very rough pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, acute, median vein slightly keeled beneath leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, 2.8 to 6" [7 to 15 cm] long, peduncle provided with a few scarious, tubular sheaths, rachis slightly to not thickened, few to many flowered inflorescence with triangular to ovate triangular, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying small, membraneous flowers.
"Similar to B antioquense but differs in the triangular, acute to bidentate petals with thin and long ciliate margins and a cordate base to the lip." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 458 Kraenzl. 1899
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 photo ok;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:162 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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