Bulbophyllum cuniculiforme J.J.Sm. 1911 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913
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Common Name The Wedge Shaped Lip Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in New Guinea in lowland forests at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to close set, shiny, pale green, sometimes tinged violet, cylindical-conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, glabrous, somewhat shiny green, oblong-ligulate, acute, shortly and narrowly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, basal, filiform, peduncle dirty pale purple, glabrous, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with elliptic-cucullate, subacute, glabrous floral bract.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum cucullatum Schltr. 1912; Hapalochilus cucullatus (Schltr.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986; Hapalochilus cuniculiformis (J.J.Sm.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/85 as B cucullatum drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/85
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