Bulbophyllum macilentum J.J.Verm. 1993 SECTION Pelma [Finet] Schlechter 1913
Photo © by Ed de Vogel
TYPE Drawing © by Vermeullen
Common Name The Thin Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in eastern New Guinea in primary forests and shrubby secondary open forests at elevations around 1600 to 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a patent to pendulous rhizome with .4 to 1.54" [1 to 3.8cm] between each ovoid to cylindrical, not to hardly flattened pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, ovate to elliptic, acute apically, shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a single, peduncle .28 to .6" [.7 to 1.5 cm] long, with 3 bracts, .8 to 2.4" [2 to 6 cm] long overall, rachis erect, .52 to 2.12" [1.3 to 5.3 cm] long, simultaneously 4 to 7 flowered inflorescence with ovate to triangular, acute apically floral bracts and carrying moderately opening flowers with white or pale yellowish tepals and a yellow lip .
Synonyms Pelma macilentum (J.J.Verm.) Szlach. & Kulak 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermeullen 1993 drawing fide;
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