Bulbophyllum aestivale Ames 1915

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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

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;