Bulbophyllum hiepii Aver. 1992 SECTION Sestochilus [Breda]Benth & Hkr.f 1883

Photo by © Roland Amsler of Orchideen Amsler Facebook Page

Another Flower?

Plant and Flowers ?

Photo by © Dang Bui

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Leonid Averyanov

Common Name Hiep's Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Vietnam in evergreen lowland forests at elevations of 100 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid to becoming twisted and rugose with age pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to unequally bilobed apcially leaf that blooms on an erect, 1`.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 drawing fide to Roland Amsler's photo; Slipper Orchids of Vietnam Averyanov, Cribb, Loc & Hiep 2003;

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