Bulbophyllum haniffii Carr 1932 SECTION Epicranthes (Bl.) Hook.f.
Photo by © W Rysy and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Heraria Website
Photos by © Manorot Tangsaveephan
Photos by André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Common Name Haniff's Bulbophyllum [Indonesian Botanist 1900's] - In Chiona Piao Dai Shi Dou Lan
Flower Size .6" [1 cm]
Found in southern Yunnan province of China, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Laos in evergreen broad leaved forests on tree trunks at elevations of 800 to 1700 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing, creeping epiphyte with a branching, pendant rhizome with .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] between each small ovate pseudobulb partially enveloped basally by an acuminate sheath and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, acute basally conduplicate into the short petiole leaf that blooms in the summer on a basal, very short, single flowered inflorescence with a short lived, bizarre flower.
Synonyms Epicranthes haniffii (Carr) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1961 drawing/photo fide; Botanisk Tidsskrift Bild 70 Hft 1 Contributions to the flora of Thailand VI Seidenfaden 1975 drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Bulbophyllum Thou Seidenfaden 1979 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing/photo fide; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 photo fide; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001 as Epicrianthes haniffii; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Epicrianthes haniffiidrawing fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 as Epicranthes hanifii photo good; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide
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