Bulbophyllum meridense Rchb.f.1850 SECTION Didactyle [Lindley] Cogn. 1902
Photo by Marcello Rodrigues
Another Flower form different petals and lip
Photo by The Vivero Agroriente Orchid Website
Drawing by The Dunsterville and Garay
Common Name or Meaning The Merida Bulbophyllum [A city in Venezuela]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Brazil at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a creeping, more or less elongate rhizome with .48 to 1.08" [1.2 to 2.7 cm] between each quadrangular, ovoid, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect then abruptly arching, glabrous, terete to slightly compressed, peduncle 3.6 to 5.2" [9 to 13 cm] long, provided with several membraneous sheaths, rachis 8.4 to 14.8" [21 to 37 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence.
Similar to B popayanense but differs in the smaller flowers and smaller lip. Also similar to B roiramense but dffers in the ovate basal suricles of the lip, a broadly oblong to elliptic, slightly contracted and subpandurate in the central portion of the lip lamina vs subquadrate basal lip auricles and the lamina is ovate in the lower part." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms Bulbophyllum teresense Ruschi 1946; Didactyle gladiata Lindl. 1852; Didactyle meridensis (Rchb.f.) Lindl. 1852; Phyllorkis meridensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Xiphizusa chloroptera Rchb.f. 1852; Xiphizusa gladiata (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1852
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Linnaea 22: 836 Rchb.f 1850;
Fol. Orchid. 1: 3 Lindley 1852 as Didactyle meridense;
Fol. Orchid. 1: 1 Lindley 1852 as Didactyle gladiata;
Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 919 Rchb.f 1852 as Xiphizusa chloroptera; Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 919 Rchb.f 1852 as Xiphizusa glaadiata;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 677 Kuntze 1891 as Phyllorkis meridense; Orquid. Nov. Estad. Espirito Santo: 17 Ruschi 1946 as B teresense
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 4 Foldats 1970 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as B teresense drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 6 1986 drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids COS Vol 5 COS 1994 photo fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001 photo fide;
Rodriguésia 63 (4) • Dec Mancinelli and Camargo Scmidt 2012 drawing fide;
Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo good to the second photo;
Orchidees du Bresil, As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo, Espirito Santo Vol 3 Chiron & Bolsanello 2013 drawing fide/photo fide;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:172 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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