Bulbophyllum grandiflorum
A creeping section Hyalosema Bulbophyllum from New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and eastern Indonesia, whose large, single flowers on long stalks far exceed the small plant. It grows as an epiphyte low on trunks in primary lowland rainforest, mostly between about 100 and 800 m. It needs warm, constantly humid conditions, shade and room to creep.
Where it grows wild
Low on tree trunks and on fallen trees in primary lowland rainforest and coastal forest; also recorded in an old rubber plantation and, rarely, mangrove swamp.
Literature gives about 100–800 m; wild records with elevation fall at 50–450 m, though some New Guinea specimens come from mossy forest at higher, unrecorded elevations.
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