Hapalochilus xanthophaeus (Schltr.) Garay & W. Kittr. 1986 Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo By Mrs. Ralph Levy Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

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Common Name The Yellow-Black-Brown Hapalochilus

Flower Size

Found in Papua and New Guinea in montane forests at elevations of 450 to 1000 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with 5/8" to 7/8" [1.5 to 2.3] between each cyclindric pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to elliptic-ligulate, subacute and minutely apiculate leaf that blooms in the late spring and winter on a basal, sessile, very short single flowered inflorescence that have scarious basal bracts and arising on mature psuedobulbs.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum xanthophaeum Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985 as Bulbophyllum xanthophaeum