Bulbophyllum phaeoglossum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Brachypus Schlechter 1913
Photo by John Cara
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and the Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
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Common Name The Black Brown Lip Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea on trees in range forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to ovoid-conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic-ligulate, acuminate, attenuate below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a short, .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Schlechter states that the flowers are green dotted thickly with violet and has a brown, lightly violet spotted lip.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 Drawing fide
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