Bulbophyllum gadgarrense
Introduction '''''Bulbophyllum gadgarrense''''', commonly known as the '''tangled rope orchid''', is a species of epiphytic orchid with small pseudobulbs hidden beneath purplish brown bracts, dark green, grooved leaves and small white flowers with orange or yellow tips. It grows on rainforest trees in tropical North Queensland.
Description ''Bulbophyllum minutissimum'' is an epiphytic herb with tangled, branching, hanging stems  long. The stems have purplish brown bracts that hide the pseudobulbs that are only  long and  wide. Each pseudobulbs has a thick, fleshy, dark green leaf  long and  wide with a narrow groove and a stalk . A single flower  long and  wide is borne on a thread-like flowering stem about  long. The flowers are whitish with orange or yellow tips. The sepals are fleshy,  long, about  wide and the petals about  long and  wide. The labellum is about  long and less than  wide and fleshy. Flowering occurs from July to September.
Taxonomy and naming ''Bulbophyllum gadgarrense'' was first formally described in 1949 by Herman Rupp who published the description in ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland'' from a specimen collected near Gadgarra on the Atherton Tableland by Frank Kajewski. The specific epithet (''gadgarrense'') is a reference to the type location.
Distribution and habitat ''Bulbophyllum minutissimum'' grows on mossy parts of rainforest trees where there is good air movement. It occurs between the Big Tableland and the Tully River in Queensland.
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