Bulbophyllum williamsii A.D.Hawkes 1956 SECTION Monanthes [Bl] Avery. 1994

Plant and flower Photos courtesy of Rudi Hromniak and his © and his Orchid Webpage

Common Name Williams Bulbophyllum [Named For L.O. Williams Orchid Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found on Mindanao Island of the Philippines as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] betweeen each, conical, rugose with age pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic, obscurely pointed leaf that blooms on an erect, thread-like, to 6" [15 cm] long, single flowered inflorecence.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum caudatum L.O.Williams 1938

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as B caudatum Wms. 1938; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003

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