Bulbophyllum nubigenum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Peltopus Schlechter 1913

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Part shade Cold LATER Spring

Common Name The Mist Forest Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in montane range forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with close set, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, obtuse to minutely apiculate leaf that blooms in the later spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence .

The flowers are sulphur yellow.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum nemorosum Schltr. 1913; Bulbophyllum singuliflorum W.Kittr. 1984 publ. 1985

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

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