Bulbophyllum cuspidipetalum J.J. Sm. 1908 SECTION Beccariana Pfitz. 1889
Photos by Bob Fallon Copyright © and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives
Common Name The Lanceolate Petal Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Borneo and once in Malysia with a thick sheathed, quickly becoming bristly rhizome with 6" [15 cm] between each slender conspicuous, ovoid-cylindrical pseudobulb carrying a single apical, petiolate, elliptical, acute leaf, blooming on a short to 5/8" [to 1.5 cm] long inflorescence with the wide opening, foul smelling flowers [to 12] held in a close group, single flowered,
Similar to B subumbellatum but differs in the rounder overall, look and the thicker apical tails of the petals in this one.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfadden and Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 17 2016 photo fide;
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