Bulbophyllum clipeibulbum J.J.Verm. 2001 SECTION Hirtula Ridley 1908
Photos courtesy of Rudi Hromniak and his © and his Orchid Webpage
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Found in southern Vietname in open or closed primary evergreen forest on granite bedrock at elevations of 700 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with touching, dorsiventrally discoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic-ovate, acute, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a basal, peduncle to 16.4" [41 cm] long, rachis to 7.6" [19 cm] long, arching to nodding, spindle-shaped, slightly to finely rugose-verruculate, elongate, lax, simultaneously several, to 50 flowered inflorescence with ovate to triangular, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers that do not open well.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Gard. Bull. Singapore 54: 124 J J Verm. 2002 drawing/photo fide;
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