Bulbophyllum attenuatum Rolfe 1896 SECTION Intervallatae Ridley 1897
TYPE for the section
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Common Name The Dagger-Shaped Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in Kalimantan Borneo in lowlands as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with clustered, rather small, ovoid to conical, angular when mature pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, subacute leaf that blooms on a patent, congewsted, rachis to 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, porrect, slightly thickened, to 7.2" [18 cm] long overall, densely to 18 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Bulbophyllum pugioniforme J.J. Sm. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermuellen 1991; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129195, 2008 Vermuellen; Thirty Two New Species of Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae)from Sulawesi J.J. VERMEULEN 1 AND P. O’BYRNE Gard. Bulletin Singapore 60 (1): 73-153 2008; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 drawing ok;
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