Bulbophyllum djamuense Schltr. 1913 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008

© TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and the Swiss Orchid Foundation

Common Name The Djamu River Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in forests at elevations around 700 meters as a large sized, warm growing epiphyte with 1.4 to 1.8" [3.5 to 4.5 cm] between each laterally compressed, obliquely elliptic pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, thin, ovate, acuminate, reticulate veined, subcordate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, fasciculate, few bracted, to .48 to .68" [1.2 to 1.7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that this species is much slender than B dictyoneuron and has thiner smaller leaves, smaller flowers with narrower petals and a different lip. The flowers are pale yellow with red stripes, and the lip is violet with a yellow apex.

Synonyms

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

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