Bulbophyllum otochilum J.J.Verm 1991 SECTION Beccariana Pfitz. 1889
Photo by © Art Vogel
Photos by © Dian Rachmawaty and the Orchids of Borneo Website
Common Name The Ear-Shaped Lip Bulbophyllum
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Borneo on ridges in montane forests at elevations up to 1300 meters as a hot to cool growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome with .36 to .48" [.9 to 1.2 cm] between each distinct, ovoid, slightly flattened pseudobulbs and carrying a single apical, erect, rather thin, elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, 1.4 to 1.8" [3.5 to 4.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular floral bracts
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermuellen 1991 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide;
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