Bulbophyllum nitidum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Codonosiphon Schlechter 1913 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Forward View Photos by © Art Vogel

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Shining Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 4 1/2" [11.25 cm]

Found in Papua New Guinea as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte that is on mossy trees at elevations around 1200 meters with conical-cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, glabrous, narrowly ligulate, obtuse leaf that is narrowly subpetiolate below and blooms in the winter on a basal, erect, 3 3/4" [9 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with an elliptic floral bract that holds the flower just above the leaves.

Synonyms Hapalochilus nitidus (Schltr.) Senghas 1978

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 40 Bulbophyllinae 1983 as Hapalochilus nitidus photo fide;

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