Bulbophyllum garupinum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Hymenobractea Schlechter 1913 Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo by Peter O'Byrne Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

LATE THROUGH EARLY

Common Name The Garup Bulbophyllum [Papua and New Guinea River]

Flower Size 3/8" [1.5 cm]

A small sized, hot growing epiphyte from Papua and New Guinea at elevations of 150 to 300 meters on tree trunks and branches forming large colonies with a creeping, freely branching rhizome carrying close-set, erect, subsherical to ovoid, dark green, rough textured, pseudobulbs that are completely enveloped when new, becoming a ring of bristles with age and carries a single, erect, obovate, very stiff and leathery, rounded and slightly bilobed leaf that has a long, deeply channeled petiole and has the underside rough-textured and densely covered with white spots and streaks that blooms in the late winter and early spring a basal, 3/4" to 2" [2 to 5 cm] long, racemose, few [3 to 5] flowered inflorescence that holds the large, pretty flowers under the leaves close to the pseudobulb.

There is much speculation that this species and B infundibuliforme may be conspecific and if so then B infundibuliforme takes precedence. I will leave them separate for now.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/85 drawing good; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1991 drawing/photo fide

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