Bulbophyllum ptychantyx J.J.Verm. 1993 SECTION Peltopus Schlechter 1913

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IN NATURE and CULTIVATION

Common Name The Folded Margin Bulbophyllum [refers to the lip margin]

Flower Size 1.5" [`.6 cm]

Found in eastern New Guinea at elevations of 2500 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to ovoid pseudobulbs and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter in nature and in the spring in cultivation on a basal, to 5.2" [to 13 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Peltopus ptychantyx (J.J.Verm.) Szlach. & Marg.2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermuellen 1993 drawing fide;

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