Bulbophyllum aestivale Ames 1915 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008
Another shot w/ruler Photos by Ian Chung ©
Side View of Flower Photo by © Art Vogel
Common Name or Meaning The Summer Flowered Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Leyte Philippines at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, pear shaped pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, elliptic-oblong, leathery leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a long, slender, erect to ascending, [2.4" [6 cm] long, single flowered inflroescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Thirty Two New Species of Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae)from Sulawesi J.J. VERMEULEN 1 AND P. O’BYRNE Gard. Bulletin Singapore 60 (1): 73-153 2008
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