Species Information - Bulbophyllum dischidiifolium

Bulbophyllum dischidiifolium J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 8, 1 (1909) 140, pl. 46, fig. 155

Type: Bogor cult. (Exp. Lorentz, Djibdja 85) s.n.

Synonyms:

• Bulbophyllum aberrans Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10 (1911) 177
  - Type: Schlechter 20666 (holo B, lost)
• Bulbophyllum triandrum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1913) 810
  - Type: Schlechter 16517 (holo B, lost); para: Schlechter 17435 (B, lost)

Epiphyte, very small. Pseudobulbs close together, very small, depressed-globose, green, 0.13 cm by 0.3 cm; 1-leaved. Leaf suborbicular, very obtuse, thick fleshy, rigid, 1.4-2.1 by 1.25-1.7 cm; base shortly contracted; upper side convex with a longitudinal groove; below concave. Inflorescences fasciculate. Inflorescence 1-flowered, 0.85 cm long; sheaths membranous. Floral bract broadly ovate, triangular, acute, hood-shaped, membranous, 0.23 cm long. Flowers produced at intervals, [often] not opening, [often] cleistogamous, narrowly ovoid-conical, acute, 0.8 by 0.33 cm. Median sepal oblong-triangular, acute, concave, 0.7 by 0.34 cm; inside longitudinally c. 7-grooved. Lateral sepals obliquely lanceolate-triangular, acute, concave, 0.75 by 0.28 cm; inside longitudinally 5-grooved, outside longitudinally ribbed. Petals ovate-triangular-lanceolate, acute, concave, 0.68 by 0.25 cm. Lip porrect, irregularly ligulate, above the base dilated, concave, 0.38 by 0.13 cm at the base; below convex, somewhat constricted; apex recurved, obtuse; the middle upper part ciliate; with one longitudinal groove. Column very short, very thick, 0.2 cm wide, the stigma terminal. Anthers 3, cucullate; connective swollen, papillose. Pollinia 2, semiglobose. Ovary very short, thick, obconical, 6-grooved, 0.14 cm long. (After Smith, 1909)

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