Bulbophyllum spadiciflorum Tixier 1966 SECTION Hirtula Ridley 1908
Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Tixier and the Adansonia n.s., 6: 449 Tixier 1966
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Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in central Vietnam at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm[ between each, ovoid pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to obovate, obtuse, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect to patent, that is as long as the leaf, peduncle to 12" [30 cm] long, provided with 5 bracts, rachis 8” [20 cm] long, nodding, swollen, circular in section, elongated, anthesis from the top of the rhachis downwards, lax, several flowered inflorescence with acuminate floral bracts.
Similar to B Osyricera sharing the short, denticulate petals, the operculum with a papillate extension, but the flower dimensions and the shape of the labellum separate them. Also B erosipetalum has a sinilar habit but the inflorescence is shorter, the lip and petals siffer and the stelida is trident-like.
Synonyms Osyricera spadiciflora (Tixier) Garay 1994
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Adansonia n.s., 6: 449 Tixier 1966 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001 as Osyricera spadiciflora; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Osycerica spadiciflora; Gard. Bull. Singapore 54: 137 J J Verm. 2002;
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