Bulbophyllum jamaicense Cogn. 1909
Photo By © Christian Gegenbauer
Common Name The Jamaican Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]
Found in Jamaica in open rocky woodsat elevations around 150 to 900 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, globose, wrinkled pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, ovate-lanceolate, dark green, leathery leaf that blooms in the winter through summer on a basal, 3.6" [9 cm] long, arching to pendant, racemose, 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing ok; Orchids of Jamaica Gloudon & Tobisch 1995; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
