Bulbophyllum wollastonii Ridl. 1916 SECTION Brachypus Schlechter 1913
photo/Drawing by © J J Vermeulen
Common Name Wollaston's Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Papua New Guinea in lower motane forests at elevations around 750 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a rhizome giving rise to close together, conical pseudobulbs enveloped by large, ovate, papery, keeled mucronate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, acute, acuminate, subcoriaceous, pale green when dried, keeled, narrowing into the base leaf that blooms on a short, .4" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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