Bulbophyllum newportii

"Bulbophyllum newportii Rolfe, commonly known as the cupped strand orchid,[2] is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that is endemic to tropical North Queensland. It has widely spaced, oval or cone-shaped, light green pseudobulbs, a single stiff, dark green egg-shaped leaf and up to eight bell-shaped white, cream-coloured or greenish flowers with a long, narrow yellow labellum. It grows on trees and rocks, usually at moderate to high elevations."

Bulbophyllum newportii Rolfe, Orchid Rev. xvii 94 (1909)

Bulbophyllum newportii Rolfe, Photo by Jason Mc Larty 

its native range is N. & NE. Queensland.

Latin Name: 

Bulbophyllum newportii Rolfe 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Adelopetalum newportii (F.M.Bailey) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem.

Bulbophyllum trilobum Schltr.

Sarcochilus newportii F.M.Bailey

English Name:

Newport's Bulbophyllum (Australian Original Collector of species late 1800's early 1900's).

Australia name:

The Cupped Strand Orchid

Description: 

With a much branching rhizome with 8 to 1.5 cm between each grooved to ribbed, nearly orbicular to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green, narrowly oblong to linear, acute, shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, wiry, longer than the leaf, 5 cm long, 1 to 8 flowered inflorescence.

Distribution:

Queensland.

Ecological:

In rain or cloud forest at elevations of 600 to 1200 m as mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

1.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Light:

Bright; 2500-3500 Footcandles (very bright indirect light).

Temperature:

Warm,Intermediate to Cool;45°F min. to 98°F max.(tolerant of extremes,favoring warm).

Watering:

Moist; 3-5 waterings per week (let dry lightly between waterings).

Type:

Dallachy, J. [s.n.], Australia K000867050 holotype

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- ipni.org/n/619636-1

- science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:619636-1

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulbophyllum_newportii

- orchidspecies.com/bulbnewportii.htm. 

- andysorchids.com/pictureframe.asp?picId=6923