Bulbophyllum lorentzianum J.J.Sm. 1910 SECTION Papulipetalum Schlechter 1913
Photo by © Peter Jongejan and their Orchids of New Guinea Website
Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Common Name or Meaning Lorentz' Bulbophyllum [German Botanist collected in Argentina late 1800's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in New Guinea in lowland forests at elevations around 440 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a creeping, elongate, terete, branched rhizome giving rise to erect, 1.2" [3 cm] between each, elongated, compressed, linear, in cross-section obtusely subquadrangular, longitudinally grooved pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, obtuse, apiculate, thickly coriaceous, margins recurved, apex recurved, acute, midrib above grooved, underneath prominent, obtuse, narrowing below into a short, stout, conduplicate-channelled, c. .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring from the nodes of the rhizome, peduncle pale green, c. .8" [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with appressed, tubular, acute, keeled above, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying color variable flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/85
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