Prev Taxon: Genus Bulbophyllum section Monanthaparva
Current Genus: Genus Bulbophyllum section Monanthes
Next Taxon: Genus Bulbophyllum section Monosepalum
Bulbophyllum culex
Bulbophyllum culex Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 179
Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 3, 2500 ft.) (holo BM)
Synonyms:
Rhizome long creeping, slender. Pseudobulbs 3-4 cm apart, erect, conical, 0.2 cm long. Leaf lanceolate, obtuse, 1 by 1.5 cm; base narrowed. Inflorescence very slender, filiform, 3 cm long. Floral bract minute, tubular, urn-shaped, 0.5 cm long. Median sepal lanceolate, linear, 0.4 cm long. Lateral sepals as long as the median one, to the base dilated, gibbose, lanceolate, linear, glabrous, 0.1 cm wide. Petals almost as long as the sepals, lanceolate; apex long filiform. Lip equally long as sepals and petals, very narrowly linear, obtuse, fleshy, with long white hairs. Column very small, purple; column-foot long. Pedicel and ovary 0.1 cm long. (After Ridley, 1916)
Sepals straw-yellow; lip crimson (when dried violet).
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 culex
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Bulbophyllum culex
Bulbophyllum culex Ridl., J.J. Vermeulen, sketch, flower analysis, based on Kloss s.n. (Camp 3, 2500 ft.) (holo BM)