Bulbophyllum konstantinovii Aver. 2013 SECTION Macrocaulia (Bl.) Aver 1994
Photo/TYPE Drawing by Averyanov and Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013
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Common Name Konstantinov's Brachypeza [Russian Discoverer of species current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Cambodia at elevations of 100 to 200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a creeping, thin, wiry, greenish in youth, whitish-gray with age rhizome with .4 to 2" [1 to 5 cm] between each light olive, yellowish green to green, ovate, often oblique, slightly bending to the rhizome, irregularily longitudinally grooved and wrinkled pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate to ovate, condulicate, obtuse, subsesssile to very shortly petioalte base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a basal, ascending, filiform, sometimes slightly flexuous, light yellowish green, glabrous, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescencewith one small basal, hyaline, goblet-shaped, clasping bract
"Morphologically the new species may be closest to Bulbophyllum simplicilabellum Seidenf. and B. didymotropis Seidenf. described from Thailand, but distinctly differs in 3 nerved sepals, broadly ovate, oblique, acute petals, broad cup-like, cordate broadening of column foot apex and inflated fleshy margin of the lip." Averyanov 2014
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 drawing/photo fide;
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