Prev Taxon: Genus Bulbophyllum section Monanthaparva
Current Genus: Genus Bulbophyllum section Monanthes
Next Taxon: Genus Bulbophyllum section Monosepalum
Bulbophyllum plumula Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1913) 796
Type: Schlechter 17775 (syn B, lost); 17950 (syn B, lost; K); 19677 (syn B, lost)
Synonyms:
Epiphyte, slender. Rhizome very short. Roots filiform, flexuose, glabrous. Pseudobulbs ovoid-pyramidal, 4-angular, 0.8-1.5 by 0.5-0.7 cm above the base; 1-leaved. Leaf erect, ligulate, subobtuse or minutely apiculate, glabrous, 3-5.5 by 0.5-1 cm near the middle. Inflorescence 1-flowered, 6-10 cm long, wiry, very slender, with a few small peduncle-scales. Floral bracts cucullate, somewhat shorter than the ovary. Flower not resupinated. Sepals lanceolate-ligulate, acute, 1.6 cm long, with finely minutely ciliate margins. Lateral sepals oblique, tightly connate to near the apex. Petals obliquely broadly elliptic, 0.2 cm long, with an obtuse, incurved apicule; below the apex along the interior margins with short stiff hairs. Lip narrowly linear, obtuse, 1.3 cm long; base shortly 2-auriculate; near the base on either side with a minute, ovate-falcate, obtuse lobule; in the middle slightly narrowed; margins densely long-ciliate except in the basal third. Column very short; stelidia subulate, margins on either side with a minute tooth; column-foot short but distinct, the apex narrowed in the claw of the lip. Ovary sessile, cylindrical, glabrous, hardly 0.3 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1913)
Flowers dark purple.
Epiphyte in lower montane forest; 700-2600 m.
Malesia (New Guinea).
Intermediate growing epiphyte.
May, June, July, August, October.
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