Bulbophyllum montense Ridl. 1894 SECTION Macrocaulia (Bl.) Aver 1994
Plant and Flower in situ Mt Kinabalu Borneo
Photos by Copyright © Rogier Van Vugt and His PBase Orchid Photo Website
Common Name The Mountain Living Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1 1/8" [3 cm]
Found in Borneo in open montane mixed forests on bark and moss cushions at elevations of 1300 to 3400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to 1/8" to 5/8" between each ovoid to ellipsoid, slightly flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, rather thick, elliptic, petiolate leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a basal, lateral to arching, 1 1/4 to 4" [3 to 8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular floral bracts and an unscented flower that does not open very well
Synonyms Bulbophyllum vinculibulbum Ames & C. Schweinf. 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermeullen 1991 drawing/photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood Beaman etal 2001 as B aff montense; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo good; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide; A Guide to the Orchids of Kinabalu Wood 2013 photo good; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide;
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