Bulbophyllum baileyi

Bulbophyllum baileyi F.Muell.

Bulbophyllum punctatum; Bulbophyllum caryophyllum; Carparomorchis baileyi; Phyllorkis baileyi; Phyllorkis punctata; Sestochilos baileyi

Fruit Fly Orchid

Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 9(72): 5 (1875)

Northern Kimberley, growing on an unknown host. The species has not been found in Western Australia for some years but is common in some Torres Strait islands, far north Queensland, New Guinea and Indonesia. The photos here were taken from a specimen collected by Harry Butler and cultivated in the Herbarium shade-house by Andrew Brown.

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An epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with widely spaced, curved, greenish or yellowish pseudobulbs 15–30 mm long by 10–15 mm wide emerging from an elongated creeping rhizome. Each pseudobulb has a single oblong, thick, fleshy, pale green to yellowish-green leaf 80–200 mm long by 40–60 mm wide and, when flowering, a single upward-facing, cream to creamy yellow red or purple spotted flower 20–40 mm wide.

The species has no close relatives in Western Australia.

Not Listed