Bulbophyllum exaltatum Lindl. 1842 SECTION Didactyle Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista

Another Flower? Photo courtesy of Arturo Carillo

Another Flower? Photo by Dave Alford

Common Name or Meaning The Wingless Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in S Venezuela, Guyana and N Brazil at elevations of 800 to 1600 meters as a miniatureto small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close setovoid, tetragon, each face concave sided pseudobulbs and carries a single apical, erect, coriaceous narrowly ovate, obtuse, constricted below in to the short petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, erect, to 18" [45 cm] long, several to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with elongate bracts that partly envelop the flower

Synonyms Didactyle exaltata (Lindl.) Lindl. 1852; Phyllorchis exaltata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide for first photo; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing fide for first photo; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide to the first photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0204 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids COS Vol 5 COS 1994 photo hmm; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo hmm; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide to the first photo; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira' Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;

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