Bulbophyllum baladeanum J.J.Sm. 1912 SECTION Hoplandra Verm 2008 Photo by © Edouard Faria

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Senghas.

Common Name The ? Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in New Caledonia in rain forest at elevations around 1100 meters on mossy trees with a robust, creeping rhizome giving rise to yellow, quadrangular pseudobulbs and carrying a single, apical, erect, greenish yellow, spatulate leaf that blooms in the winter spring and fall on several, basal, single flowered inflorescence

There are two forms to this species one with free sepals like the first photo and one with fused sepals as in the second photo.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum leratiae Seidenf. 1973 publ. 1974; Cirrhopetalum leratiae Kraenzl. 1928; Cirrhopetalum uniflorum Schltr. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfaden 1973; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 3 2001 photo; *New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129
195, 2008 Vermuellen

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