Bulbophyllum sulcatum (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Desmosanthes [Bl.] J.J. Sm. 1933
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photos by J.J.Vermeullen and the Orchids Asia Website
Common Name The Sulcate Bulbophyllum [refers to the pseudobulbs]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands and Sumatra at elevations around 750 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with long-ovoid, furrowed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly oblong, shortly acute to obtuse, graually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, thin, 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with narrow floral bracts and carrying the flowers held at the apex and facing in all directions.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum modestum Hook.f. 1890; Bulbophyllum ochranthum Ridl. 1898; Bulbophyllum paullum Ridl. 1912; *Diphyes sulcata Blume 1825; Phyllorchis modesta (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Phyllorchis sulcata (Blume) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1890 as Bulb modestum drawing ok; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as B modestum; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1961 as B modestum drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 #3 Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Bulbophyllum Thou Seidenfaden 1979 as B modestum drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as B modestum photo; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as B modestum drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011 drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 as B modestum photo fide
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