Bulbophyllum microcala P.F.Hunt 1970 SECTION Minutissima Pfitzer 1888

TYPE Drawing of B microcharis by © Schlechter

Common Name or Meaning The Small Stem Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations of 100 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a creeping, filiform, branching, slender rhizome with .24 to .48" [.6 to 1.2 cm] between each, very small, ovoid to globose pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect or suberect, ovate, elliptic or ovate, apiculate, contracted below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a single, erect, usually longer than the leaf, .24 to .3" [.6 to .75 cm] long, peduncle wiry, provided at the base with a few small peduncle-scales, single flowered inflorescence with ovate-cucullate, shortly acuminate, many times shorter than the slender, pedicellate ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Kew Bull. 24 93 P F Hunt 1970 drawing/photo fide

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