Bulbophyllum meridense Rchb.f.1850 SECTION Didactyle [Lindley] Cogn. 1902 Photo by Marcello Rodrigues

Common Name or Meaning The Merida Bulbophyllum [A city in Venezuela]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Brazil at elevations of 900 to 1050 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with quadrangular, ovoid, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below intothe base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect then abruptly arching, 10" [25 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Didactyle gladiata Lindl. 1852; Didactyle meridensis (Rchb.f.) Lindl. 1852; Phyllorkis meridensis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Xiphizusa chloroptera Rchb.f. 1852; Xiphizusa gladiata (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1852

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 4 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;

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