Species Information - Bulbophyllum mystrophyllum

Bulbophyllum mystrophyllum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16 (1919) 124

Type: Kempter s.n. (Kaiser Wilhelmsland, area behind Vanimo) (holo B, lost)

Synonyms:

Epiphyte, pendulous, c. 10 cm long. Rhizome flexous, entirely covered by overlapping, acute or acuminate, dorsally keeled, distichous sheaths. Roots filiform, flexuose, thin, glabrous. Pseudobulbs 1.5-3 cm apart, cylindrical, somewhat compressed, appressed to the rhizome, 0.35-0.45 by 0.2 cm diam; 1-leaved. Leaves suborbicular, somewhat concave, fleshy, sessile, 3-4 by 2.5-3.5 cm near the middle. Inflorescences many-flowered, single, from near the base of the pseudobulbs; peduncle 1-1.5 cm long, with a few small peduncle-scales; raceme dense, with short deltoid, acute bracts which are almost 3 times shorter than the pedicellate ovary. Median sepal broadly elliptic, concave without the appendage 0.3 cm long; apex with an antenniform, clavate, sharply bent, short appendage,. Lateral sepals somewhat concave, obliquely ovate-triangular, apex extended in a appendage subulate, obtuse, porrect, hardly larger than the oned of the median sepal. Petals obliquely elliptic, obtuse, 0.13 cm long. Lip curved, tongue-shaped, below the middle somewhat dilated, as long as the petals; in upper half the margins obtuse and shortly lacerate-papillose; apex obtuse; upper part in the basal half thinly 2-ribbed, keels 2 from the middle, margins ortis soon becoming close together per the middle longitudinally decurrent aucto. Column very short, shorter than the petals; column-foot incurved. Ovary acute 3-angled, pedicellate, 0.4 cm long, glabrous. Fruit obliquely oblongoid, triangular, glabrous. c. 1.2 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1919)

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