beccarii
Rp 65,000.00 Bulbophyllum beccarii Rchb. f. 1879
SECTION Leopardinae Bentham 1883
Common Name Beccari's Bulbophyllum
[Italian Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 1/2" [1 cm]
Found in Borneo in lowland and peat swamp forests at elevations of sealevel to 600 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing creeping epiphyte that wraps around the trunk of a tree with ovoid, pale yellow green psuedobulbs carrying erect, oblong to broadly elli-ptic, obtuse to acute, thick, leathery, reticulate patterned, sulcate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves held in a cup shape trapping all the falling deitrius from the tree and is invaded by a tangle of roots.
The flowers are beautiful, occur in the spring and summer, hanging in pendant, 5 to 17" [12 to 43 cm] long, densely many flowered cluster below the base of the leaf, yet smell like rotting fish or meat.
The rosy with violet lines peduncle is enveloped by 5 imbricate, ovate to ovate-elliptic, acute to acuminate, dorsally carinate bracts and has flesh-colored with darker pink to purple flecks, lanceolate, acuminate, floral bracts.
Synonyms Phyllorchis beccarii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
~Bulbophyllum befaonense Schltr. 1924
- See Bulbophyllum sarcorhachis Schltr. 1918
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