Bulbophyllum jamaicense Cogn. 1909

Plant and Flowers Photo By © Christian Gegenbauer

Common Name The Jamaican Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in Guatemala? Jamaica at elevations arounf 800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with clustered, globose, wrinkled pseuobulbs carrying a single apical, ovate-lanceolate, dark green, leathery leaf that blooms in the winter through summer on a basal, 3.6" [9 cm] long, arching to pendant, racemose, 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing ok; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudon & Tobisch 1995

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