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Bulbophyllum purpurellum
Bulbophyllum purpurellum Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 185
Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 6a, 3100 ft.) (holo BM)
Synonyms:
Stems many, slender, flaccid, pendulous, 20 cm long; internodes 8 cm long. Pseudobulbs adnate to the stem, hardly free apex. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic, thinly coriaceous, subacute, minutely mucronulata, 1-1.5 by 0.4 cm. Flowers very small, single, fascicled from a thin sheath 0.5 cm long. Pedicel and ovary 0.2 cm long. Median sepal lanceolate, acute, 0.2 cm long. Lateral sepals wider, base gibbose, forming a short mentum. Petals lanceolate, acute, half the size of the sepals, entirely purple. Lip almost 0.1 cm long, purple; claw long deflexed; blade tongue-shaped; lateral lobes erect, rounded, near the middle of the lip; apex lanceolate, acute. Column purple, three times shorter than the column-foot, erect, stout; stelidia subulate, thin. Anther ovate, acute. (After Ridley, 1916)
Flower purple.
Epiphyte in lower montane forest; 759 m.
Malesia (New Guinea).
Papua (Indonesia); see map
Intermediate growing epiphyte.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Dendrobieae
- Subtribe Bulbophyllinae
- Genus Bulbophyllum
- Section Polymeres
- Species Bulbophyllum purpurellum
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Bulbophyllum purpurellum
Bulbophyllum purpurellum Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 185, J.J. Vermeulen, sketch, plant habit and flower analysis, based on Kloss s.n. (Camp 6a, 3100 ft.) (holo BM)