Bulbophyllum arminii Sieder & Kiehn 2009 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913

Photo by R Amsler

Common Name Armin's Bulbophyllum

Found in Papua and New Guinea ln lower montane forests at elevations around 950 meters near Lake Kutubu as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a rtather thick rhizome with .6" [1.5 cm] between each, angular-ovoid, appressed to the rhizome pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, ovate, fleshy, acute, baslly rounded, sessile leaf that blooms on a basal, very thin, erect to pendant, peduncle .8" [2 cm] long, to 1.6" [4 cm] long overall, longer than the leaf, single flowered inflorescence apressed sheathng bracts.

Synonyms Hapalochilus bandischii Garay, F.Hamer & E.S. Siegerist 1995

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001 as Hapalochilus bandischii

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