Bulbophyllum restrepia Ridl. 1893 SECTION Hoplandra Verm 2008
TYPE for the section
Photos courtesy of Khairimhd
Common Name The Restrepia-Like Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1/2” [1.25 cm]
Found in Singapore, Johor and Pahang Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, Moluccas and New Guinea in tropical lowlands on mangroves or on trees by rivers at elevations of sealevel to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with .4" [1 cm] between each ovate, curved pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing into the short, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, basal, 2.4" [6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Bulbophyllum ensiculiferum J.J.Sm. 1929
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913/85; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfadden 1973 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129195, 2008 Vermuellen; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Verm & O’ Byrne 2011 photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photo/drawing fide
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