Bulbophyllum repens Griff. 1851 SECTION Brachystachyae Benth. & Hook. f. 1883

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Plant and Flowers in situ Thailand

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Common Name The Crawling Bulbophyllum - In China Qiu Hua Shi Dou Lan

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Assam, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam on tree trunks in dense forests at elevations around 300 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with close set, subovoid, small pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowing towards the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, short, globose, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-triangular floral bracts and carrying flowers that smell of fungus.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum khasianum Rchb.f. 1874; Bulbophyllum poilanei Gagnep.1930; Phyllorkis repens (Griff.) Kuntze 1891;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections drawing good; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Bulbophyllum Thou Seidenfaden 1979 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 as B poilanei; Orchids of Nagaland Deorani & Naithani 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 10 2001 photo fide; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov1 , Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi and Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as B poilanei Photos fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015; Wulfenia 22 [2015]: 137 - 188 New Orchids in the Flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Nguyen, Tich, Nguyen, Nong, Nguyen and Xuan photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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