Bulbophyllum odontoglossum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Lepidorhiza Schlechter 1911
Photo by P Jongejan and the Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and the Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
EARLY
AGAIN
Common Name The Toothed Lip Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea in lower range forests at elevations around 800 to 1350 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ligulate, obtuse, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer and again in the fall on an erect, terete, provided with a few distant peduncle-scales, 16” [40 cm] long, apically 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with elliptic, cucullate, much shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.
Schlechter states that the flowers are yellowish, the sepals dotted with red near the base ad the lip has red verrucose teeth.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/85 drawing ?
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