Bulbophyllum pygmaeum (Sm.) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Minutissima Pfitzer 1888
Photos by © Bob Watson & Eric Scanlen and New Zealand Native Orchids Website
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Common Name The Small Bulbophyllum - In New Zealand Piri-Piri
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in New Zealand and Stewart Island in coastal to montane forests on well lit lichen covered trunks and branches, occasionally seen on rocks as a mini-miniature sized, clump forming, warm to cool growing epiphtye or lithophyte with globose, wrinkled with age pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, ovate to oblong, roughened surface above leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a basal, short, single flowered inflorescence and carries short lived flowers.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum ichthyostomum Colenso 1893 publ. 1894; *Dendrobium pygmaeum Sm. 1808; Ichthyostomum pygmaeum (Sm.) D.L.Jones, M.A.Clem. & Molloy 2002; Phyllorkis pygmaea (Sm.) Kuntze 1891;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001; The Native Orchids of New Zealand, A Colour Field Guide Scanlen & St George 2010 asIchthyostomum pygmaeum photo fide;
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