Bulbophyllum pustulatum Ridl. 1898 SECTION Beccariana Pfitz. 1889
Photo by © Linda & Mikael Karlbom, Sweden
Photo courtesy of LupSan and The East Asian Flora Web Site
Plant and Flower Photo by Ed De Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Common Name The Blistered Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in penninsular Malaysia and Borneo as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with 3/4" [2 cm] spaced, somewhat flattened, cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped by imbricating basal sheaths in youth and carrying a single, apical, ovate, acute leaf that narrows basally into a long attenuate petiole that blooms on 1 to 3 3" [7.5 cm] long 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with flowers that open at dawn each day and close 3 hours later only to open again the next day.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide
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