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Red bead orchid or grain-of-wheat orchid
Bulbophyllum minutissimum

About
Bulbophyllum minutissimum, commonly known as the red bead orchid or grain-of-wheat orchid, is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with small, flattened, reddish or green pseudobulbs, scale-like leaves and small whitish to reddish flowers with broad dar red stripes. It grows on trees and rocks, mostly in swamps and near streams in eastern Australia.
- Family
- Orchidaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Bulbophyllum minutissimum
- Slug
- bulbophyllum-minutissimum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Bulbophyllum
- Species
- minutissimum
- Wikidata QID
- Q1317742
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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