Bulbophyllum comberpictum J J Verm 2002 SECTION Hirtula Ridley 1908
Photo by © Roland Amsler
Photo courtesy of Takao Ishii and His Orchid Photo Pages Copyright ©
Common Name The Colored Comber Bulbophyllum [refers to James Comber discoverer of the species and the colorful flower]
Flower Size .28" [7 mm]
Found in Sarawak and Sabah Borneo in podzolic forests and in steep, densely forested ravines at elevations of 800 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, ovate-conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic, obtuse to acute, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect to patent, peduncle 3.8 to 7.4" [9.5 to 18.5 cm] long, provided with 4 scales, rachis arching to somewhat nodding, not thickened, [1 to 5.4" [2.5 to 13.5 cm] long, glabrous, elongated, rather dense, racemose, simultaneously several, 9 to 31 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
B comberpictum was put forward by Vermulen as a separate species predicated on the vertical longer ridge on the adaxial side of the lip as well as a denser raceme and longer pedicels.
"Similar to Bulbophyllum jolandae but distinct because of its much denser inflorescence with much smaller flowers on shorter pedicels. The lip has a more distinct and distinctly longer median ridge (reaching up to 4/5 of the length of the lip), and distinctly woolly rather than straight hairs." J J Vermeulen 2002
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Gard. Bull. Singapore 54: 146 J J Verm. 2002 drawing fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm., P O'Byrne and A Lamb 2015 photo/drawing fide
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