Bulbophyllum dichilus Schltr. 1913 SECTION Monanthes [Bl] Avery. 1994

Plant and Flower Photo by © Geoff Stocker and their Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name The Split Lip Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]

Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with ovoid-conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblanceolate-oblong, apiculate leaves that blooms in the winter on a very short, .1 to .18" [2 to 3.5 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with apiculate bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/82 drawing fide; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129
195, 2008 Vermuellen

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