Bulbophyllum trachyglossum Schltr. 1905 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913

Drawing By © Lewis & Cribb 1991

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

Common Name The Rough Lip Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in the Bismark Archipelago and the Solomon Islandson trees in forests at elevations around 600 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to .4 to 1.2" [1 to 3 cm] between each ovoid, green pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, oblong-lanceolate, mid green, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a basal, 2 to 4.8" [5 to 12 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying a purple flower edged with white and a bright orange to purple lip.

Schlechter states that this species is similar to B chrysoglossum but differs in the flower color which is dark purple, the more pointed leaves, the thickly covered papillae of the lip which is narrower and distinctly contracted from the middle and the column arms which are not 2 toothed but serrate in front.

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

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85 drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001 as Hapalochilus trachyglossus

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