Bulbophyllum stellula Ridl. 1916 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913

TYPE Drawing by © Ridley

Common Name The Star? Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in western New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations around 759 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with close together, cylindrical, base somewhat thickened, rugose pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, lanceolate, above grooved, narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in spring on a filiform, 1.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, cylindrical, with an acute tooth, 0.2 cm long, appressed to the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Hapalochilus stellula (Ridl.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9:182 Ridley 1916 drawing fide

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