Species Information - Bulbophyllum masonii

Bulbophyllum masonii (Senghas) J.J.Wood, Kew Bull. 41 (1986) 821

Type: Type: Heidelberg cult. (Mason) 0-9795 (holo HEID)

Synonyms:

• Cirrhopetalum masonii Senghas, Orchidee 29 (1978) 15, fig. 1-3

Plant caespitose. Pseudobulbs crowded, in outline truncate-ellipsoid, in cross section subrotund, c. 6 by 3 mm; 1-leaved. Leaves narrowly ellipsoid, to 45 by 1.2 cm. Inflorescence 1-flowered, pendulous from the base of the pseudobulb; peduncle very thin, 7 cm long. Floral bract membranous, 0.4 cm long, enclosing and densely appressed to the ovary. Median sepal 10 by 0.8 cm; base narrowly elliptic; top part filiform, slightly twisted; margins hairy except to base and the apex. Lateral sepals forming a hardly significant mentum, connate to the apex, as long as the median one but base only 0.3 cm wide, margins glabrous. Petals 2.5 cm long; base 0.25 cm wide; margins distinctly hairy. Lip mobile, with a very narrow elastic ligament attached to the column-foot, filiform, 1.5 cm long; base small pandurate, on each side with two small, broadly rounded, 0.1 by 0.05 cm big lateral lobes; above the base with a small stretch of short hairs; the long top part densely tomentose-pilose. Column low, thick, somewhat rounded, 0.13 cm tall; stelidia two curved-erect, filiform; column-foot distinct, 0.15 cm long. Ovary 0.8 cm long. (After Senghas, 1978)

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