Bulbophyllum rhodoglossum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008
Photos by © Rogier Van Vugt and his P base Orchid Photo Website
Photo by Ed De Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name The Red Lipped Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in New Guinea in montane forests on trees at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with superposed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, apiculate, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the winter on a very short, few bracted single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 Drawing fide; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129195, 2008 Vermuellen;
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