Bulbophyllum torricellense 1913 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Torricelli Range Bulbophyllum [ A range of Mountains in New Guinea]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 800 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a rhizome with .48 to .6" [1.2 to 1.5 cm] between each cylindrical pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ligulate, acute to subacute, cuneate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, very short, covered with a few peduncle-scales, single flowered inflorescence with horter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Hapalochilus torricellensis (Schltr.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913;

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