Bulbophyllum muluense J.J.Wood 1984 SECTION Macrocaulia (Bl.) Aver 1994
Photo by © Gary Yong Gee
Photo by © Yoshi Nomura
Common Name The Mulu Bulbophyllum [A national Park within Sarawak Borneo]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Borneo in tall forests at elevations around 1500 to 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold cold growing epiphyte with 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm] between each ellipsoid to rhomboid, somewhat flattened pseudobulb carrying a single ovate to elliptic, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on an erect to patent, 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
CAUTION Previously cited in error as a synonym of B anguliferum but this one has a rounded margin lip
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids Of Borneo Vol 2 Vermuellen 1991 as B anguliferum drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 as B anguliferum; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as B anguliferum; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 as B anguliferum photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo/drawing partly; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as B anguliferum photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide;
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