Bulbophyllum aff stenochilum Schltr.1913 SECTION Monanthes [Bl] Avery. 1994

Another Angle Photos by Wolfgang Bandisch © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

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Common Name The Slim-Lipped Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in New Guinea and Solomon Islands in primary forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome giving rise to superposed, cylindrical pseduobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect-patent, lanceolate, acute, attenuate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on very short, basal single flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129
195, 2008 Vermuellen

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