Bulbophyllum schefferi (Kuntze) Schltr. 1915 SECTION Macrocaulia (Bl.) Aver 1994
Photos by © J.B. Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Scheffer's Bulbophyllum [Dutch Botanist and director of Bogor later 1800's]
Flower Size .16" [4mm]
Found in Java, Sumatra, Sabah, Kalimantan and Sarawak Borneo, Bali, as well as the Philippines in lowland and hill forests at elevations of 400 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a chain of ovoid, adnate to the rhizome pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, thick, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, erect, .32" [8 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Bulbophyllum corticicola Schltr. 1910; Bulbophyllum gracile (Blume) Lindl. 1830; Bulbophyllum marcidum Ames 1923; Diphyes gracilis Blume 1825; *Phyllorkis schefferi Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905 as B gracile Lindl.; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as B gracile Lindl.drawing ok; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as B marcidum; Orchids of Java J B Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids Of Borneo Vol 2 Vermuellen 1991 drawing/photo hmm; Plants of Mt Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing hmm/photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photo/drawing fide
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