Bulbophyllum puguahaanense Ames 1915 SECTION Cirrhopetalum Photos courtesy of Charles Nishihira Copyright ©, and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

Common Name The Puguahaa Bulbophyllum [refers to the plants location in the Philippines]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Malayasa, Borneo and the Philippines at elevations around 120 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte needing light shade and high humidity with crowded, ovoid, 4 angled, pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, leathery, elliptical, slightly bilobed apically, petiolate base leaf and will bloom on a basal, short to 1" [to 2.5 cm] inflorescence carrying two flowers hels below leaf height.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum chekaense Carr 1932; Cirrhopetalum puguahaanense (Ames) Garay, Hamers & Siegerist 1994

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfadden 1973 Drawing ok; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001;

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