Bulbophyllum ornatum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Beccariana Pfitz. 1889

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

LATE

Common Name The Ornate Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in range forests at elevations of 900 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a filiform, flexuous rhizome with 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] between each, ovoid, slightly angular pseudobulb and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ligulate, shortly acuminate, attenuate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a basal, erect, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, subumbellate, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pale yellow spotted red within, the lip is very thickly dotted with red and the column is yellow with a red foot.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; &output_format=query&ret_defaults=on">IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide;

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