Bulbophyllum elassoglossum Siegerist 1991 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Color Variation Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Plant Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer

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Common Name The Small Lipped Bulbophyllum [the specific name refers to the small labellum]

Flower Size

This miniature sized, hot to cool growing, unifoliate epiphyte with ovoid, more or less tetragonal pseudobulbs and an elliptic to narrowly elliptic leaf that comes from the Philippines which needs plenty of moisture, shade and an open media and blooms in the fall on a basal, erect, pubescent, 4 1/4" [11 cm] long, thin, single flowered inflorescence carrying a large flower just beyond the leaf.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129
195, 2008 Vermuellen

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