Bulbophyllum cylindrobulbum
A small creeping epiphytic Bulbophyllum with cylindrical pseudobulbs spaced along a long rhizome, found from New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago to the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia. Herbarium labels place it everywhere from lowland forest near sea level to mossy montane and subalpine forest above 3000 m, so where your plant came from matters a great deal. Most records sit in the middle of that range, in wet, mossy hill and montane forest.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte on trunks and branches, and sometimes on fallen trees, in primary, disturbed and mossy montane forest; Solomon Islands collections note streamsides and forest understory. Some labels describe it as a climbing epiphyte, which fits the long creeping rhizome.
GBIF specimens with elevations run from about 5 m to 3330 m, with a median near 1250 m. New Guinea montane moss-forest collections are at 2300–2700 m; Solomon Islands collections are lowland.
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