Bulbophyllum erinaceum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Lepanthanthe Schlechter 1913

Plant and Flower Photo by © Peter Jongejan and their Orchids of New Guinea Website

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Common Name The Bristly Bulbophyllum [refers to the inflorescence]

Flower Size

Found in eastern New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with .2 to .4" [5 mm to 10 mm] between each cylindrical pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, apiculate, attenuate below leaf that blooms late winter, spring andsummer on a racemose, erect, erinaceous-asperous, delicate, fractiflex, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, subdensely and successively many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Trachyrhachis erinacea (Schltr.) Szlach. 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1982 drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermeullen 1993 drawing/photo fide

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