Bulbophyllum secundum Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Hirtula Ridley 1908
Flower Closeup Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery Common Name The One Sided Bulbophyllum [refers to the flowers being on one side of the inflorescence] - In China Shao Hua Shi Dou Lan
Flower Size .1" [2 to 3 mm]
Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, southern China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in montane temperate or tropical
evergreen to shrub forests, at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with close set, depressed conical to lenticular pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, linear, subacute, basally narrowing into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, peduncle 2 to 5.4" [5 to 13.2 cm], provided with
c. 4 bracts, rhachis not thickened, .88 to 4.4" [2.2 to 11 cm] long, just exceeding leaf height, successively several, 8 to 23 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute to acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying distichous toscattered, resupinate, secund, not fully opening flowers..
Synonyms Phyllorchis secunda (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1890 drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1961 drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Bulbophyllum Thou Seidenfaden 1979 drawing fide; Indian Orchids Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Orchids of Nagaland Deorani & Naithani 1995 drawing good; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Siegerist 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Gard. Bull. Singapore 54: 154 J J Verm. 2002 drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 1 Tanaka 2003; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Nyan Tun Taunggyi 2014 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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