Bulbophyllum rubipetalum P.Royen 1979 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008

TYPE Drawing by P Van Royen

Common Name The Red Petal Bubophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea in subalpine shrubberies in moss cushions at elevations of 3250 to 3425 meters as a small sized, cold growing, prostrate epiphyte with a stemlike, slender, glabrous, branched rhizomee densely covered with roots in the basal part, top part with bracts and giving rise to relatively close together, subparallel to rhizome, enveloped by bracts basally, ovoid-cylindric, ribbed, glabrous pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, glabrous, linear-spathulate or linear-ovate, acute, midrib a little prominent above, prominent below, margin slightly revolute, crinkled, narrowly cuneate leaf that blooms in the winter in bundles of 2 to 5, peduncle glabrous, 3.2 to 4.8" [8 to 12 cm] long, provided with 2 to 3 cylindric, obliquely truncate, acute, single nerved, glabrous bracts, single flowered inflorescence carrying a pendulous flower with light yellow sepals, scarlet petals with black dots at tip and a scarlet lip with a light yellow base and minute scarlet dots.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum crispatisepalum P.Royen 1979

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Alp. Fl. New Guinea 2:224, fig. 81 P Van Royen 1979 drawing fide; Alp. Fl. New Guinea 2:201, P Van Royen 1979 as B crispisepalum drawing fide;

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