Bulbophyllum microdendron Schltr. 1913 SECTION Monanthes [Bl] Avery. 1994

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Part shadeCool LATE Fall EARLYWinter

Common Name The Very Tiny Tree Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in range forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect-patent, narrowly ligulate, acute to apiculate leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a short, single flowered inflorescence.

The flowers are sulphur yellow and the front of the lip is golden yellow

Synonyms Diphyes microdendros (Schltr.) Szlach. & Rutk. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide

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