Species Information - Bulbophyllum hystricinum

Bulbophyllum hystricinum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1913) 840

Type: Schlechter 20211 (holo B, lost; iso AMES, BO)

Synonyms:

• Bulbophyllum sarcanthiforme Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 186
  - Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 3, 2500 ft.) (syn BM); (Camp 6a, 3100 ft.) (syn BM; iso AMES)
• Bulbophyllum levidense J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 14 (1929) 461, pl. 75, fig. 107
  - Type: Lam 1472 (holo BO, spirit material)

Epiphyte, spreading, 10-20 cm long. Rhizome stem-like, curved, covered with sheaths. Roots filiform, glabrous. Pseudobulbs close together, subparallel to the rhizome, cylindrical, 0.5 by 0.25-0.3 cm. Leaf oblong-ligulate, 2.5-4.5 by 0.7-1.4 cm near the middle. Inflorescences 1-flowered, short, fascicled, with a few small peduncle-scales. Floral bracts very small, much shorter than the ovary. Sepals ovate, acuminate, glabrous, 0.33 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique. Petals obliquely oblong, subretuse-broadly obtuse; in the middle somewhat narrowed; margins very minutely and densely finely ciliate. Lip lanceolate, tongue-shaped, obtuse, 0.2 cm long; base retuse; underneath except for base and apex covered with acute, subulate papillae. Column short; stelidia subulate, hardly reaching the middle of the lip; column-foot with the apex somewhat incurved. Anther cucullate, glabrous. Ovary shortly pedicellate, glabrous, 0.5 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1913)

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