Hapalochilus alticola (Schltr.) Garay & W. Kittr 1985 publ. 1986

Side View of Flower Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Common Name The High Elevation Hapalochilus

Flower Size 1.65" [4.2 cm]

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, subcoriaceous, glabrous, lanceolate-ligulate, subacute, narrowly subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect to suberect, filiform, single flowered, .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long inflorescence

Synonyms *Bulbophyllum alticola Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985

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