Bulbophyllum sterile (Lam.) Suresh 1988 SECTION Racemosae Benth & Hkr 1883
Photo by © Roman Maruska
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Common Name The Sterile Bulbophyllum
Flower Size
Found in the Nilgiri Hills of India at elevations of 1300 to 1700 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 2" [5 cm] between each ovate, irregularily angled, pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-elliptic, obtuse, emarginate leaf that blooms in the winter and early spring on a pendent, 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence
In literature this species is often confused with B caudatum SECTION Brachyantha Rchb.f 1861 , for example does not match Pearce and Cribb 2002 as it is close to B caudatum, which is not even close to this species. Does match exactly to Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 4 1980. Pretty much exact match to the drawing in Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 and fide for Pradhan, Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as B sterile NOT!!! photo fide for B caudatum;
Synonyms Bulbophyllum nilgherrense Wight 1851; *Epidendrum sterile Lam. 1783; Phyllorkis nilgherensis (Wight) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing, photo not = B disitiflorum; Orchids of Bombay Satapau & Kapadia 1966 drawing fide; Indian Orchids Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1979; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 4 1980 as Cirrhopetalum neilgherense photo fide; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 as B neilgerrense drawing good; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 as B neilgerrense photo fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 refers to a relative of B vaginatum see caudatum; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Cirrhopetalum neilgherrense; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as B sterile; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 as B sterile photo not = B caudatum; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 drawing/photo not both - B caudatum; LANKESTERIANA 18(1) 2018 photo fide; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 Photo fide;
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