Bulbophyllum adangense Seidenf. 1979 SECTION Epicranthes (Bl.) Hook.f.

Photo by © Mikael Karlbom

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Seidenfaden

Part sun Hot summer

Common Name The A Dang Bulbophyllum [An Island to the west of southern Thailand]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Thailand on Adang Island at elevations around 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with alternating in 2 rows obliquely on the rhizome pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic, fat leaf that blooms in the summer on a very short, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Epicranthes adangensis (Seidenf.) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Bulbophyllum Thou Seidenfaden 1979 drawing fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 as Epicranthes adangensis photo fide

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