Bulbophyllum weberi Ames 1912 SECTION Cirrhopetalum
Lip Detail Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Closer still Photos courtesy of Jo Levy Copyright ©, and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives
Common Name Weber's Bulbophyllum [Original Collector of Species 1900's]
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
Found in the Philippines at elevations of 120 to 1500 meters on rocks and trees as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with 4 angled, shiney, yellowish, apically gradually tapering pseduobubls carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-elliptic, leathery, gradually narrowing below into the channeled, rigid petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, slender, 6 to 14" [15 to 35 cm] long, 8 flowered inflorescence with 3 linear-lanceolate, strongly acute sheaths and linear-lanceolate, acute floral bracts and holding the flowers in an umbel
Synonyms Bulbophyllum baucoense Ames 1915; Cirrhopetalum baucoense (Ames) Garay, Hamer & Siegerist 1994; Cirrhopetalum weberi (Ames) Senghas 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Notes On Cirrhopetalum Seidenfaden 1973 as B baucoense drawing fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as B weberi; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 as B baucoense; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003
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