Bulbophyllum linearibractium S.S.Ying 2023
Photos by S S Ying and NEW TAXA & NEW NAMES, vol 6-part two Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Linear Bracted Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]
Found in Taiwan on montane slopes on tree trunks in montane forests at elevations of 2100 to 2350 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with a creeping, slender, greenish-white, woody rhizome giving rise t oclose set, elliptic to elliptic-ovoid, smooth, longitudinally few furrowed with age, pale greenish yellow pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong, coriaceous, obtuse and slightly emarginate at the apex, obtuse basally, glabrous, lustrous green surface above, pale green beneath, midrib impressed abd elevated beaneath, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a basal, erect to ascending, pale orange-yellow, 4.4 to 5.2" [11 to 13 cm] long, pale green, glabrous, provided with a single, acute, tubular basal sheath, subumbellate, 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence with linear, acuminate to cuspidate apically, somewhat hooded, pale brown with vewins, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale orange, scentless flowers.
"Bulbophyllum linearibractum is readily recognized by its closely approximate, elliptic to elliptic-ovoid, .48 to .72" [1.2 to 1.8 cm] long, .32 to .44" [8 to 11 mm] wide pseudobulbs, smaller leaf, pale orange-yellow flowers arranged in a sub-umbellate inflorescence, the sepals and petals not ciliate at margins and lanceolate, .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm] long, .12 to .16" [3 to 4 mm] wide, slightly rolled inward lateral sepals." S S Ying 2023
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* New Taxa New Names 6: 514 S S Ying 2023
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