Bulbophyllum goliathense J.J.Sm. 1911 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008
TYPE Drawing by © J J Smith
Drawing of B procerum by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Goliath Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea on trees in range forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a cauliform rhizome with .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] between each, adnate to the rhizome, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-ligulate, apiculate, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a very short, single flowered inflorescence with infundibuliform-tubular, acuminate, above keeled, thinly membranous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts
Schlechter states that the flowers are yellowish with red stripes, the lip is dark purple and the anther is yellow.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum procerum Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as B procerum Drawing fide;
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