Bulbophyllum pubiflorum Schltr. 1911 SECTION Brachystachyae Benth. & Hook. f. 1883

Inflorescence

Photos by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Hairy Flowered Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Sulawesi in forests at elevations of sealevel to 1200 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] between each, distinct, ovoid pseudobulb and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the .28 to 1" [.7 to 2.5 cm] long, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an arching, rather dense, racmose, thickened, densely papillose-hirsute, 4.4 to 8" [11 to 20 cm] long, 35 to 45 flowered inflorescence with 4 bracts and acute floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Thirty Two New Species of Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae)from Sulawesi J.J. VERMEULEN 1 AND P. O’BYRNE Gard. Bulletin Singapore 60 (1): 73-153 2008; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Vermeullen & O'Byrne 2001 photo fide;

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