Bulbophyllum tinekeae Schuit. & de Vogel 2005 SECTION Epicranthes (Bl.) Hook.f.

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Common Name Tineke's Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .56" [1.4 cm]

Found only in Papua New Guinea in montane forests on isolated trees at elevations of 2100 to 2250 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a much elongated, pendulous, branching rhizome covered with overlapping sheaths and .72 to 1" [1.8 to 2.5 cm] between each, cylindrical, slightly thickened towards the base pseudobulb carrying a single, erect, broadly ovate-elliptic, coriaceous, apex acute, very shortly, abruptly petiolate base leaf that blooms on arising from rhizome, very short, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, apex subacute, longer than the pedicel floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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