Bulbophyllum trigonocarpum Schltr. 1905 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913

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

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Common Name The Triangular Fruit Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea on trees in lower montane forests at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short, terete rhizome giving rise to close together, subovoid, terete, glabrous pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate-ligulate, subobtuse, coriaceous, glabrous, apically minutely bilobulate,gradually narrowing into the weakly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, filiform, terete, glabrous, shorter than the leaves, c. 1.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, almost as long as the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flower is golden yellow

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

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85 drawing fide

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