Bulbophyllum posticum J.J.Sm.1911 SECTION Uncifera Schlechter 1912
Photos by © Ed De Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
EARLY 
Common Name The ? Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a pendent rhizome giving rise to, 2.4" [6 cm] between each cylindrical-ovoid pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-ligulate, obtuse, minutely apiculate, glabrous leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and early fall on a .2" [4 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, acute to apiculate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum bicornutum Schltr. 1923; Bulbophyllum diceras Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/85 as B diceras; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/85; Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermeullen 1993 drawing fide; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001
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