Bulbophyllum stabile J.J.Sm. 1911 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913
Photos by Ed De Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name The Stabile Bulbophyllum [refers to the non-movable lip]
Flower Size .74” [1.85 cm] long
Found in Papua New Guinea in low elevations rainforests as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing twig epiphyte with close set, ovoid, with many longitudinal grooves, when young somewhat shiny pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, obtuse, shortly apiculate, midrib above grooved, underneath obtusely keeled, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on several from the nodes of the rhizome, erect, 1.24” [6 cm] long, pale dirty green, above purple, peduncle filiform, in the basal part provided with a few tubular sheaths, single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Hapalochilus stabilis (J.J.Sm.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913; The Orchids of the High Mountains of New Guinea P Van Royen 1979; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001 as Hapalochilus stabilis
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