Bulbophyllum sordidum Lindl. 1840 SECTION Bulbophyllaria [Rchb.f] Griseb. 1864
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Drawing by © Dodson redrawn by Oledrzynska
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Common Name The Dirty Brown Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Pataza province of Ecuador in humid lowland forests at elevations around 300 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to subconical, 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, oblong, obtuse, thick, rigid, cuneate below intothe sessile base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, basal, arching, peduncle longer than the leaves, 3.2 to 8.4" [8 to 21 cm] long, rachis thicker, fleshy, .8 to 9.6" [2 to 24 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying inconspicuous, yellowish to orange flowers with dull reddish spots.
"Characterized by its linear petals vs oblong-elliptic, ellipticto obovate in Bulbophyllum pinelianum and B bracteolatum." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26: t. 89 Lindley 1840;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 677 Kuntze 1891 as Phyllorkis sordida;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 8: 168 Schlechter 1921 as B ecuadorense
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 Errata;
Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:165 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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