ankylochele Sp.22
Rp 750,000.00 Bulbophyllum ankylochele J.J.Verm. 1993
SECTION Peltopus
Common Name The Hooked Claw Bulbophyllum
[refers to the upwards pointingknob on the column foot]
Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]
Found in New Guinea at elevations of 1700 to 2300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindrical, slightly to not compressed pseuobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic, acute leaf that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on a basal, horizontal, thin, 5.6 to 8" [14 to 20 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying a scented flower reminiscent offaint sweet fungus.
Similar to B alveatum, B rhodoleucum, B peltopus and B brassii.
Synonyms Peltopus ankylochele (J.J.Verm.) Szlach. & Marg.2001
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