The New Refugium Botanicum. Bulbophyllum medusae

Abstract

Bulbophyllum medusae (Lindl.) Rchb.f, Annales Botanices Systematicae 6: 262. 1864. Cirrhopetalum medusae Lindl., Edwards’s Botanical Register 28: t.12. 1842. Phyllorchis medusae (Lindl.) Kuntze, Revisio Generum Plantarum 2: 677. 1891. TYPE: Singapore, H. Cuming s.n. (holotype, K). An epiphytic, small herb up to 25 cm tall, often forming large clumps. Rhizome creeping, 5.5–6.0 mm in diameter, the internodes elongate, the pseudobulbs 5–8 cm apart. Pseudobulbs ovoid, slightly triquetrous, to 4.3 × 3.0 cm, unifoliate. Leaves oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, bending backwards, base deeply conduplicate, midgreen, 12.5–15.3 × 1.9–2.8 cm, the base of the younger shoots covered by two or three glumaceous, enveloping, triangular-ovate bracts, becoming dry and papyraceous with age, the upper one larger, to 3.6 × 3.0 cm.