Bulbophyllum penduliscapum J.J.Sm. 1900 SECTION Altisceptrum J J Smith 1914

Plant and Inflorescence in situ

Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Pendant Inflorescence Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines in low and open forests at elevations of 300 to 1100 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 1 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] between each discoid, not flattened pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic to ovate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a pendant, 10 to 20" [25 to 50 cm] long, 50 to 200 flowered inflorescence with ovate floral bracts and sweetly fragrant flowers.

"Unmistakable, even without flowers, because of the clustered pseudobulbs, the persistent fibres of the rhizome scales, and the tufts of erect catch-roots. Well-grown, flowering plants can be quite spectacular. Some variability occurs in the stelidia; these are porrect in some specimens (e.g. the type of B. jarense) but strongly curved downwards in others (e.g. the type of B. macrophyllum)." J J Vermuelen 2002

Synonyms Bulbophyllum jarense Ames 1920; Bulbophyllum macrophyllum Kraenzl.1904

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as B jarense; Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermeullen 1991 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Gard. Bull. Singapore 54: 111 J J Verm. 2002 drawing/photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Vermeullen & O'Byrne 2011 drawing/photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide ;

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