Bulbophyllum streptosepalum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Ephippium 1913
Lip Detail Photo courtesy of © Khairimhd
Common Name The Twisted-Petal Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 2 to 2 1/4" [5 to 6 cm]
Found as an epiphyte in Papua and New Guinea and Vanuatu at elevations of 50 to 1500 meters in mist forests on moss-free trunks and branches with 1/4 to 1/2" between each ovoid, obtuse, 4 angled pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, elliptic-ligulate, obtuse, basal narrow and glabrous leaf and is freeflowering if grown well with a slender, 2 1/4" to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long, erect to drooping, bracteate [3], gree to purple inflorescence that carries a solitary flower that increases in size with time and is held above the leaves.
Cited as a synonym of Bulbophyllum falciferum.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985 drawing fide; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989 drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991; Orchids of Papua and New Guinea Millar 1999
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