Monosepalum dischorense Schltr. 1913 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Dischore Monosepalum [Mountains in New Guinea]

Flower Size

Found in the Celebes Islands and New Guinea at elevations of 1300 metes as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with .4" [1 cm] between each obliquely ovoid, sulcate, 4 angled pseudobulbs that carry a single, apical, erect, elliptic, obtuse leaf that is contracted subpetiolate below that can bloom at any time of the year on a pubescent 5" [12.5 cm] long, wiry spike carrying a single pendent alien-looking non-resupinate flower,

Synonyms Bulbophyllum dischorense Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985

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