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Orchid Species: Bulbophyllum regnellii
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Bulbophyllum regnellii is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1850.
ORIGIN: Found in southeastern Brazil on moss covered scrub on wind-blown, exposed mountain ridges at elevations around 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a tough, woody rhizome giving rise to clustered, squat, almost round pseudobulbs carrying a single, oblong, deeply keeled, dark green, stiff leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a stiff, basal, ascending then abruptly descending, 10 [25 cm] long overall, rachis at a right angle to the peduncle, to 4.4 [11 cm] long, successively 1 to 2, several flowered inflorescence carrying alternate, small, bilaterally compressed flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [0.65 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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