Bulbophyllum fritillariiflorum
A pseudobulbous epiphyte of section Hyalosema, endemic to New Guinea. The section is known for large single flowers with an elongated dorsal sepal. Almost nothing about its wild habitat is published, and most herbarium material comes from plants grown at the Bogor Botanic Garden, which suggests it grows well in warm, humid lowland conditions.
Where it grows wild
Recorded only as a pseudobulbous epiphyte in New Guinea. No habitat notes survive on the specimens we could see, and most were pressed from plants cultivated at Bogor, Java. Its relatives in section Hyalosema are generally epiphytes of humid lowland and hill forest.
No elevations are recorded. It thrived at Bogor (about 250 m), which fits a warm lowland-to-hill origin, but this is an inference.
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