Bulbophyllum cruciatum J.J.Sm. 1911 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913
Photo by André Schuiteman, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Photos by Wolfgang Bandisch © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Ed de Vogel and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name The Cross-Like Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .72" [1.8 cm]
Found in Papua and New Guinea on branches of primary forest trees at elevations around 200 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with squat, elliptic-conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, sub-coriaceous, elliptic-ligulate, minutely apiculate, narrowly subpetiolate below leaf that blooms in the winter on a basal, erect, shorter than the leaf, .12" [3 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, subulate-acuminate, transparent floral bracts.
It is very similar to B immobile but differs in the flowers being quite a bit larger and petals of a different shape.
It is often considered to be synomonous with B immobile and if true then Bulbophyllum cruciatum takes precedence.
Synonyms Hapalochilus cruciatus (J.J.Sm.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986; Hapalochilus mutatus (J.J.Sm.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001;
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