Bulbophyllum aestivale Ames 1915 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008
Photos by Ian Chung ©
Photo by © Art Vogel
Common Name or Meaning The Summer Flowered Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Leyte Philippines at elevations of 500 to 600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, pear to egg shaped pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, elliptic-oblong, leathery leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on many, long, slender, erect to ascending, 4" [10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philppiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Thirty Two New Species of Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae)from Sulawesi J.J. VERMEULEN 1 AND P. O’BYRNE Gard. Bulletin Singapore 60 (1): 73-153 2008; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #1 2014 photo fide;
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