Bulbophyllum zebrinum J.J.Sm. 1911 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008

Lip Detail

Inflorescence

Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Full shade Hot LATE Fall

Common Name or Meaning The Zebra-Like Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in Papua & New Guinea on trees in hill forests at elevations around 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] between each, oblong-cylindric, obtuse, 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, obtuse to minutely apiculate, glabrous, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the late fall on a thin, filiform, 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum ornithoglossum Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as B ornithoglossum drawing fide; Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913; Lowland Orchids of of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo fide; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001 as B ornithoglossum; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129195, 2008 Vermuellen

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