Prev Taxon: Genus Bulbophyllum section Lasiogaster
Current Genus: Genus Bulbophyllum section Lepanthanthe
Next Taxon: Genus Bulbophyllum section Lepidorhiza
Bulbophyllum erinaceum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1913) 879
Type: Schlechter 20235 (holo B, lost; iso AMES, BO, L)
Synonyms:
Rhizome creeping, 0.7-1.5 mm diam. Roots spreading. Pseudobulbs discoid to ovoid, 0.1-1.5 cm apart, 0.1-0.4 by 0.1-0.25 cm, not laterally flattened. Petiole 2-5 mm. Leaf blade elliptic, 1.5-5 by 0.3-0.8 cm, index 1.5-10, tip acute. Inflorescence usually single, 4.5-32 cm, 7-25-flowered. Peduncle 1.5-21 cm, verrucose; bracts 2-3, the longest 1-4 mm. Rachis erect or arching, sometimes distinctly zigzag bent, 3-11 cm, verrucose. Floral bracts triangular, 1.8-4 mm, tip acuminate, abx. with a distinct, deeply lacerate median keel or not. Pedicel and ovary 3-5 mm, with the node 1.5-2 mm from the floral bract; surface verrucose or not. Flowers scattered, 1 or few open at the time, widely opening. Median sepal ovate to elliptic, 2.1-3.5 by 2.1-3 mm, index c. 0.7-1.2, tip an incurved, subulate projection 1.7-2 mm long, ending in a thickened, often papillose knob; margins ciliate; rather thin; surface glabrous; abx. with a deeply lacerate median keel. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate, 1.5-3 by 1.2-2.5 mm, index 1.1-1.6, upper margin glabrous or finely erose, lower ciliate; tip sometimes without a subulate projection, otherwise as the median sepal. Petals often with a claw up to 0.9 mm long; blade orbicular to transversely elliptic, 0.7-1.8 by 1.2-1.8 mm, index 0.6-1, base often subcordate; tip rounded; margins ciliate; thin; surface glabrous. Lip 3-lobed, median lobe straight or recurved towards the tip, general outline ovate, 1.3-2.5 by 0.5-1.2 mm, index 1.6-2.8 (not spread), tip usually incurved, obtuse; margins glabrous; very thick; adx. concave and with a thin median ridge near the base, which continues into a median slit up to approx. half-way the lip, bordered by 2 more ridges which in front converge and in the back protrude as lobes, surface glabrous but somewhat papillose around the median slit; abx. without a median ridge, surface finely papillose; basal lobes with the frontal margins converging over the adaxial surface of the lip; forwards pointing, falcate, (narrowly) triangular, tip obtuse; glabrous; thin. Column from ovary to the tip of the stelidia 0.8-1.2 mm; stigma somewhat protruding at its base, orbicular; column-foot without accessories. Stelidia straight or falcate, narrowly triangular, 0.2-0.5 mm; tip acute; with or without a small, obtuse to acute tooth along the upper margin and with distinct, falcate, narrowly triangular tooth along the lower margin. Anther abx. with a ridge towards its base; front margin not protruding. (After Vermeulen, 1993)
Plant light green. Rachis and flowers dark purple. Sepals dark green or purple, with dark purple to almost black hairs and tip. Petals sometimes a paler purple. Lip purple, blackish at the tip.
Epiphyte in lower montane forest; 1000-2300 m.
Malesia (New Guinea).
Intermediate growing epiphyte.
February, April, September, October.
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