Bulbophyllum maxillarioides Schltr. 1905 SECTION Brachypus Schlechter 1913
TYPE for the section
Photos by © Ed de Vogel and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name The Maxillaria-Like Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 2" [5 cm] tall
Found in Papua New Guinea in lowland forests on river banks and stream sides on trees at elevations around 200 to 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a creeping, short rhizome giving rise to close set, ovoid, about terete, glabrous pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong, acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous, narrowing below into a short, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a short, enveloped by peduncle scales, single flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1982 drawing fide; The Orchids of the High Mountains of New Guinea P. Van Royen 1979; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129195, 2008 Vermuellen; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 21 2018 photo fide
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