Bulbophyllum truncicola Schltr. 1913 SECTION Sestochilos [Breda] Benth & Hook.f. 1883

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Common Name The Tree Trunk Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in New Guinea on thick tree trunks in forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with 6 to 6.8" [16 to 17 cm] between each cylindrical, glabrous pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, lorate, obtuse, attenuate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a short, .8" [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with cucculate bracts.

Closely related to B grandifolium and B werneri but differs in the slender rhizome, narrower leaf, the short labellum and the column.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/82 drawing fide;

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