Bulbophyllum brevibrachiatum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912 SECTION Ephippium Schlechter 1913
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne.
Photo by © Ron Parsons.
Common Name The Short Bracted Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1" long [2.5 cm] long
Found in Sulawesi and the Philippines in primary forests and in plantations along streams at elevations around 100 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with pushed over, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, broadly elliptical, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, erect, 12" [30 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence with the flowers held in an umbel at the apex.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum dolichoblepharon (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912; *Cirrhopetalum brevibrachiatum Schltr. 1911; Cirrhopetalum dolichoblepharon Schltr. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfaden 1973 as B dolichoblepharon drawing fide; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfaden 1973 drawing fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as B dolichoblepharon drawing good; Orchids of The Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide as Cirrhopetalum brevibrachiatum; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #3 2009 as B dolichoblepharon photo fide; Bulbophyllum: the incomplete Guide From A to why? Bill Thoms 2009 as B dolichoblepharon photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Vermeullen & O'Byrne 2011 drawing/photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Borneo J J Verm, P O'Byrne and Lamb 2015 photos/drawing fide;
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