Bulbophyllum fletcherianum
found in New Guinea on cliff faces, humus filled cracks in rock faces, humus covered rock tops and on mossy branchyes in riverine thickets in savannahs at elevations of 250 to 800 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte, lithophyte or pseudoterrestrial with large, dark green to reddish, oblong psedobulbs in a cluster with a granular surface and streaked with purple carrying a single, pendant, elliptic to oblong, glaucous, green edged-purple leaf which is greenish on the upperside and purple beneath which blooms in the summer and fall with a basal, stout, erect, inflorescence carrying 20 to 30 clustered, foul-smelling flowers that imitate the shape of a toucans bill.
One of the largest of the Bulbophyllum, leaves can be 6 feet long.
1 Plant Bloom size , 2 leaf