Bulbophyllum newportii Rolfe 1909 SECTION Adelopetalum [Fitz.]J.J.Verm 1993 Photo courtesy ofGreg and Kerri Steenbeeke and their Orkology Kreations Website

Common Name Newport's Bulbophyllum - The Cupped Strand Orchid

Flower Size less than 3/8" [less than 1 cm]

Found in Queensland Australia in rain or cloud forest at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters that as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with well spaced, grooved to ribbed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, wiry, longer than the leaf, 2" [5 cm] long inflorescence with 1 to 8 flowers. This species grows in cool to warm temperatures, frequent mistings, and partial shade and can be put in a pot, basket or mounted on treefern.

Synonyms Adelopetalum newportii (F.M.Bailey) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2002; Bulbophyllum trilobum Schltr. 1910; *Sarcochilus newportii F.M. Bailey 1902

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 7 Vermuellen 1993 drawing fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 6 2001 photo; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Adelopetalum newportii

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