Bulbophyllum negrosianum Ames 1912 SECTION Hirtula Photo courtesy of © André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen © and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name The Negros Island Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with ovoid pseudobulbs casrrying a single, apical, erect, leathery, elliptic leaf that blooms on a basal, to 16" [42 cm] long, many [45] flowered inflorescence with the apical flowers opening first and then working back to the base.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide

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