Bulbophyllum wechsbergii Sieder & Kiehn 2009 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913 TYPE Drawing of B rynchchoglossum by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Wechsberg's Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short, decumbent rhizome giving rise to close set, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, subcoriaceous, linear-ligulate, subacute to minutely apiculate, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, basal, short, single flowered inflorescence with elliptic-cucullate, acuminate, much shorter than the pedicellate ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are red and the lip has a whitish apex.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum rhynchoglossum Schltr. 1912; Hapalochilus reflexus Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986

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

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