Bulbophyllum warmingianum Cogn. 1902 SECTION Didactyle [Lindley] Cogn. 1902
Photo by © Luiz Menini Neto & Rafaela Campostrini Forzza
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
Common Name or Meaning Warming's Bulbophyllum [Danish Plant Collector Brazil late 1800's]
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in the foothills of Minas Gerais and Goias states of Brazil on exposed rocks often in full sun as a warm to cool growing lithophyte with ovoid, rugose, reddish pseudobubs carrying a single, apical, elliptic, obtuse leaf that flowers in the fall on an erect, basal, 2' [60 cm] long, bracteate inflorescence arising with a new growth carrying several, fragrant flowers.
CAUTION!!! Many references cite this as a synonym of B exaltatum but I have left them separate for now pending more research.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum vaughanii Brade 1951; Bulbophyllum vittatum Rchb.f. & Warm. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as B vittatum; Orchidaceae Brasilense Pabst & Dungs 1976 drawing fide
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