Bulbophyllum gilvum J.J.Verm. & A.L.Lamb 1994 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008

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Common Name or Meaning The Pale Yellow Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Sarawak and Sabah Borneo in low and open, very wet, mossy forests at elevations around 1300 to 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with close set, rather inconspicuous, ascending, ovoid, flattened to concave on one side pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, acute, shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, peduncle to .4 to .72" [1 to 1.8 cm] long, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long overall, single flowered inflorescence.

"Similar to some forms of the variable species B. tenuifolium (Blume) Lindl. It differs in having more closely packed pseudobulbs, as well as a more distinctly curved lip of a firm, not a very spongy, texture." Vermeulen & Lamb 1994

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Blumea 38: 347 J.J.Verm. & A.L.Lamb 1994 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo J J Woods & P J Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood Beaman etal 2001; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide;

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