Bulbophyllum xanthochlamys Schltr. 1913 SECTION Pelma [Finet] Schlechter 1913
Drawing © by Vermeullen
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and the Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
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Common Name The Yellow Bracted Bulbophyllum [refers to the rhizome scales]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in New Guinea on trees in range forests at elevations around 900 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a cauliform, many yellow bracted rhizome giving rise to narrowly cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, apiculate to subacute, cuneate below into the base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a shortly pedunculate, to .8 to 1.2” [2 to 3 cm] long, laxly 4 to 6 flowered inflorescence
Schlechter states that the flowers are whitish with an orange yellow lip.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum lamprochlamys Schltr. 1923; Bulbophyllum unigibbum J.J.Sm. 1913; Pelma xanthochlamys (Schltr.) Szlach. & Kulak 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermeullen 1993 drawing fide;
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