Bulbophyllum xanthotes Schltr. 1913 SECTION Monanthes [Bl] Avery. 1994
Photo by © Ed de Vogel
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and the Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz Website
LATE 
EARLY
Common Name The Yellow Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea on trees in range forests at elevations around 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short, flexuous rhizome giving rise to conical cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect oblanceolate-ligulate, apiculate, narrowing below into the narrowly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a setiform, 2.8” [7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with cucullate floral bracts and carrying a non-resupinate flower
Schlechter states that the flowers are golden yellow.
Synonyms Diphyes xanthotes (Schltr.) Szlach. & Rutk. 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide;
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