Bulbophyllum piestobulbon Schltr. 1923 SECTION Piestobulbon Schlechter 1923
TYPE for the section
Photos by © Dian Rahardjo and The Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name The ?Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in rain forests at elevations of sea level to 1200 meters as a pendent, miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with 1.2 to 3.6" [3 to 9 cm] between each ovoid pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, ovate, acute, shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms on a from the rhizome, to .6" [1.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a brown, papery, basal bract
Synonyms Bulbophyllum bambusifolium J.J.Sm. 1935
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Cribb & Lewis 1991 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroideae Pt 3 Pridgeon, Cribb Chase & Ramussen 2014 photo fide
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