Bulbophyllum candidum Hook.f. 1890
TYPE Drawing by Hooker
Drawing by Hooker Icones 21 1890
Common Name The White Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in Assam as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to small globose pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below in to the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, erect, to 3" [7.5 cm] long, to 10 flowered inflorescence with well spaced flowers
Synonyms Phyllorkis cirrhata (Hook.f.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 677 (1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 21 Hooker 1890 drawing fide; Flora of Malaysia Vol 1 Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1961 as Ione cf candida drawing The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide;
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