Bulbophyllum stenophyton
Bulbophyllum stenophyton is a small epiphytic orchid of section Codonosiphon from the rainforests of eastern New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Herbarium labels describe plants about 10–12 cm tall on trees in primary and mossy forest, with dark purple sepals and a yellow lip. Treat it as a warm-growing, constantly humid, shade-tolerant mounted orchid; published cultivation information is very thin.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte on trunks and low trees in primary rainforest, under the forest canopy, along streams and on mossy rainforest margins. Collectors note it as locally present on low trees in mossy forest edges in New Guinea and under forest on Malaita, Guadalcanal and Kolombangara in the Solomons.
Herbarium specimens range from about 10 m near sea level at Kirakira (Makira) to about 960 m on Mt Saranifilu (Malaita), with most between roughly 250 and 900 m.
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