Bulbophyllum brastagiense Carr 1933 SECTION Leptopus Schlechter 1905

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Common Name The Brastagi Bulbophyllum [The Brastagi Hotel - found behind it]

Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]

Found in Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo around 1600 meters as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with a rhizome enveloped by dry sheaths and .6" [1.5 cm] in between each grooved, conical pseduobulb carrying a single, apical, linear, acute leaf that blooms with up to 6, basal, 1 3/5" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Ferruminaria brastagiensis (Carr) Garay, R. M., Hamer & Siegerist 1994

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001 as Ferruminaria brastagiense

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