Bulbophyllum oliganthum Schltr.1913 SECTION Pelma [Finet] Schlechter 1913
Photos by © Ed de Vogel and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Photo by © Art Vogel
Common Name The Sparsely Blooming Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in the Moluccas, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands on trees in forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with cylindical-conic, subparellel to the rhizome pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ligulate, apiculate, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, .2 to .35" [5 to 9 mm] long, laxly 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Pelma oliganthum (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kulak 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1982 drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermeullen 1993 drawing fide
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