Bulbophyllum navicula Schltr. 1913 SECTION Monanthes [Bl] Avery. 1994

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter

Part shade Warm LATERSummer

Common Name The Boat 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 conical-cylindrical, adpressed to the rhizome pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect-patent, narrowly elliptic, apiculate leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect , very short, single flowered inflorescence.

The flowers are golden yellow.

Synonyms Diphyes navicula (Schltr.) Szlach. & Rutk. 2008

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide

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