Bulbophyllum formosum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913
Photos by © Ed de Vogel and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Dan Newman of Hanging Gardens
Photo by © Peter Jongejan and their Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name The Beautiful Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 3.5" [8.5 cm]
Found in New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with oblong-cylindric pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-ligulate, obtuse, minutely apiculate, narrowly subpetiolate leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, 4 1/2" [12 cm] long inflorescence with an elliptic, subacute, keeled floral bract and carrying a single, large, showy flower.
Synonyms Hapalochilus formosus (Schltr.) Garay & W. Kittr. 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985 drawing fide; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001;
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