Bulbophyllum meristorhachis Garay & Dunst. 1976 SECTION Didactyle [Lindley] Cogn. 1902

Drawing by Dunsterville & Garay 1976

Common Name Dunsterville's Bulbophyllum [American Orchid Collector and Botanist Venezuela 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Bolivar states of Venezuela at elevations around 550 meters, as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, unifoliate epiphyte with ovate, transversely elliptical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, flat, lanceolate, acute, constricted below into the base leaf that blooms on a basal, erect, slender, 1.6" [4 cm] long, provided with a cylindrical sheath, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence.

"Similar to B quadrisetum but differs in the obovate lip and 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence carrying externally brown, internally yellow flowers with purple spots and a brown lip." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Venez. Orchids Illustrated 6: 72 Garay 1976;

Orchids of Venezuela, an Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 1979 drawing fide;

Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Second Edition Romero & Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:177 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide;

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