Bryobium retusum (Blume) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb 2005

Another Flower Photos by Mark Clements Copyright © 2009,

Common Name The Retuse Bryobium - In Australia - The Christmas Island Bryobium

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in Java, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Island, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Christmas Island in rainforests high on trees at elevations of 200 to 300 [1200] meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with crowded, fleshy, gren pseudobulbs carrying 2, erect, thick, bright green leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, fleshy, pubescent, .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long, 7 to 12 flowered inflorescence and carrying densely crowded flowers

Synonyms *Dendrolirium retusum Blume 1825; Eria retusa (Blume) Rchb.f. 1857; Phreatia retusa (Blume) Lindl. 1830; Pinalia retusa (Blume) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as Eria retusa; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as Eria retusa drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as Eria retusa photo/fide; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide

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