Bulbophyllum warianum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913 TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and the Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website

Common Name The Waria Bulbophyllum [a Valley within New Guinea]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in range forests at elevations around 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a rigid, cauliform, flexuous rhizome giving rise to cylindrical to cylindrical-conical, subparellel to the rhizome pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, ligulate to linear-ligulate, minutely apiculate, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a very short single flowered inflorescence with apiculate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are violet with white tips, the petals are violet and the column is white.

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

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

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