Bulbophyllum lewisense
Introduction '''''Bulbophyllum lewisense''''', commonly known as the '''Mount Lewis rope orchid''', is a species of epiphytic orchid with pseudobulbs and pale brown bracts arranged along the stems. Each pseudobulb has a single, dark green, channelled leaf and a single white flower with pointed tips on the sepals. It grows on the higher branches of rainforest trees, often where it is exposed to breezes on the higher tablelands of tropical North Queensland.
Description ''Bulbophyllum lewisense'' is an epiphytic herb with stems  long, covered with pale brown bracts. The pseudobulbs are dark green,  long, about  wide and pressed against the stem. Each pseudobulb has a single thick, narrow elliptic to oblong leaf  long and  wide with a broad channel on the upper surface. A single white resupinate flower  long and  wide is borne on a thread-like flowering stem about  long. The sepals are fleshy,  long, about  wide and have pointed tips. The petals are also fleshy, about  long and  wide. The labellum is fleshy and curved in a semicircle, about  long and  wide. Flowering occurs from August to October.
Taxonomy and naming ''Bulbophyllum lewisense'' was first formally described in 1989 by Bruce Gray and David Jones who published the description in ''Austrobaileya'' from a specimen collected in the Mount Lewis National Park by Gray. The specific epithet (''lewisense'') refers to the type location.
Distribution and habitat The Mount Lewis rope orchid grows on the upper branches of rainforest trees, especially where there is free air movement. It is found on the Mount Lewis, Mount Carbine and Mount Windsor Tablelands at altitudes between .
References '''''Bulbophyllum lamingtonense'''''