Bulbophyllum breve Schltr. 1913 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913 Photo by © Peter O'Byrne

Part shadeHot EARLY Fall

Common Name The Short Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in forests on trees at elevations around 300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to ovoid-conic pseudobulbs and carrying a single, apical, erect, glabrous, ligulate, apiculate to shortly excise, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the early fall on a basal, short, erect, single flowered inflorescence with an ovate, apiculate floral bract

Synonyms Hapalochilus brevis (Schltr.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide

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