Bulbophyllum coniferum Ridl. 1909 SECTION Brachystachyae Benth. & Hook. f. 1883

Photo by © Rogier Van Vugt and his P Base Orchid Photo website

Inflorescence Photo by © Peter O'Byrne

Another Flower? Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Cone-Bearing Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .1" [2mm]

Found in Malaysia, Java, Sumatra and Borneo in mossy lower montane forests in deep shade at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with close set, oblong-ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped by tubular sheaths and carrying asingle, apical, erect, thick, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a basal, erect, 4 to 12" [10 to 30 cm] long, 20 to 120 flowered inflorescence carrying the flowers in a nodding cylindrical, densely flowered, bottle-brush shaped rachis.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum eruciferum J.J.Sm. 1910 publ. 1911; Bulbophyllum moroides J.J.Sm. 1917; Bulbophyllum musciferum Ridl.1915; Bulbophyllum obscurum J.J.Sm.1910; Bulbophyllum reflexum Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as B obscurum; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as B obscurum drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as B obscurum photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermuellen 1991 drawing fide/photo ?; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ?; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo not; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001 as B moroides; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001 as B reflexum; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood Beaman etal 2001; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Thirty Two New Species of Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae)from Sulawesi J.J. VERMEULEN 1 AND P. O’BYRNE Gard. Bulletin Singapore 60 (1): 73-153 2008; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 as B obscurum photo fide; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo not???; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide/photo ok; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide;

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