Bulbophyllum bilobipetalum J.J.Sm. 1927 SECTION Macrocaulia (Bl.) Aver 1994

Plant and Flower in situ Borneo

Photos by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Two Lobed Petal Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .3" [7.5 mm]

Found in Kalimantan Borneo in primary forests at elevations around 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short creeping rhizome giving rise to ovoid, flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, obtuse, shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect, thin, 1" [2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence .

This species has been cited as a synonym of B schefferii by several authors but it can be separated by the shape of the stellida and the protruding proximal edge of the stigma.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photo fide;

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