Species Information - Bulbophyllum bulhartii

Bulbophyllum bulhartii Sieder & Kiehn, CITES Orchid Checkl. 5 (2009) 404

Type:

Synonyms:

• Bulbophyllum pulchrum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 710 (non (N.E. Br.) J.J. Smith)
  - Type: Schlechter 20186 (holo B, lost)
• Hapalochilus striatus Garay & W.Kittr., Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30 (1984, publ. 1985) 191 (57) (nom. nov.)

Basionym: Bulbophyllum pulchrum

Epiphyte, caespitose, to 18 cm high. Rhizome very short. Roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, glabrous. Pseudobulbs crowded, conical-cylindrical, 1.5-3 by 0.5-0.7 cm; 1-leaved. Leaves ligulate, obtuse or subobtuse, glabrous, coriaceous, 8-15 by 1.7-2.4 cm near the middle; base weakly petiolate-narrowed. Inflorescences 1-flowered, tufted, filiform, erect, glabrous, 8-10 cm long; with few distant, very small peduncle-scales. Floral bracts elliptic-cucullate, apiculate, much shorter than the slender pedicellate ovary. Flower erect or suberect, showy. Sepals lanceolate, elongate-acuminate, glabrous, 4.2 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique, broader than the median one. Petals minute, falcate-elliptic, shortly apiculate, 0.23 cm long; front margin above the base extended in a short, triangular, obtuse, lobule; apical half irregularly denticulate. Lip elongated, strongly acuminate, convex, glabrous, c. 4 by 0.8 cm middle; base minutely obtusely auriculate; above the base elliptic-dilated; in basal half 2-keeled. Column curved, without column-foot; stelidia obliquely rhombic, porrect, apically shortly few-dentate. Anther oblongoid, cucullate, apiculate, umbonate. Pedicel and ovary very slender, glabrous, c. 3 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914)

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