Bulbophyllum longimucronatum Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920SECTION Stachysanthes (Bl.) J.J. Verm. & P. O’Byrne 2008
Photo by © Rogier Van Vugt and his P base Orchid Photo Website
Plant and Flower in situ Borneo
Photos by © Th. Nordhausen and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name The Long Mucronate Bulbophyllum [refers to the petals]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Sabah Borneo in lowland to wet mossy upper montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep roadbanks with .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] between each, orbicular, not flattened pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, rather thick, elliptic to obovate, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, 30 to 40 flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts and flowers that are sometimes faintly fragrant flowers.
CAUTION!!! The plant habit is absolutely correct but details in the flowers such as length and shape of sepals and the shape of the lip leads me to be cautious with this determination!
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids Of Borneo Vol 2 Vermuellen 1991 drawing/photo good lacking hairs on lip; Plants of Mt Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood Beaman etal 2001; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo ok; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing hmm;
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