Bulbophyllum violaceolabellum Seidenf. 1981 SECTION Brachyantha Rchb.f 1861 Photos by © R Hromniak and A. Sieder and The Bulbophyllum A to Z Orchid Page Common Name The Purple Lipped Bulbophyllum - In China Deng E Juan Ban Lan
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Yunnan province of China and Laos in sparse woods on limestone slopes at elevations around 700 to 800 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte on rocks with a creeping rhizome and 1.6 to 3.6" [4 to 9 cm] between each ovoid pseudobulb and carrying a single, apical, erect, somewhat fleshy, oblong to obovate-oblong, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, [19 to 26 cm] long, suberect, subumbellate, 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997 photo ok; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov1
, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Flora of China 25: 404–440. 2009; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #4 2019 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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