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Common Name The Facinating Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 9" long [15 to 20 cm]

Found in peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines in primary montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 3/4 " to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] between each ovoid to elliptic, olive green, obtusely 4 angled pseudobulb carrying a single, apical oblong-elliptic, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a basal, suberect to patent, peduncle 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, 6.8 to 7.6 " [17 to 19 cm] long overall, single flowered inflorescence with a membraneous, lanceolate floral bract.

This species is a hot to warm grower and I have potted them in wood slat baskets with some tree fern. Give it shade, moist conditions, and plenty of air movement. The trick is to let the newest growth be close to the wood basket and the oldest in the center. This way the new growth attaches to the wood and is more likely to bloom.

Some references put this species as a synonym of B putidum but this species has a more acute apex to the lip and has a low median ridge that more or less continues half way down the lip while in B putidum the median ridge goes from the base to almost to the apex.

Synonyms Cirrhopetalum fascinator Rolfe 1908; Cirrhopetalum ornatissimum Auct. non Rchb.f 1898; Mastigion fascinator (Rolfe) Garay, Hamer & Siegerist 1994;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Cirrhopetalum fascinator; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Bulbophyllum fascinator; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1961 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Botanisk Tidsserift 67: 76-127 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand IV Seidenfaden 1972 drawing fide; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfaden 1973 as B fascinatior drawing fide; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou. Seidenfaden 1979 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 4 1980 as Cirrhopetalum ornattissimum drawing fide; Die Orchideen lieferung 13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae 1983 as Cirrhopetalum fascinator photo no = B wendlandianum; Die Orchideen lieferung 13 753 - 816 Bulbophyllinae 1983 as Cirrhopetalum putidum; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Schlechteriana Vol 2 No 4 1991 photo as Cirrhopetalum fascinator photo not = B wendlandianum; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo not both B appendiculatum; Thai Orchid Species Rakpaibulsombat 1992 as Cirrhopetalum fascinator photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as B putidum; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001 as Mastigon fascinator; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 as Mastigion fascinator photo not = B appendiculatum; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 as Mastigion putidum photo fide; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001 as Mastigion putidum not = B appendiculatum; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001 as Mastigion fascinator; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Mastigion Fascinator; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 3 2003 photo Bulbophyllum fascinator; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 as B putidum; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2005 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 as Mastigion fascinator photo not = B appendiculatum; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 as Mastigion putidum photo fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Mastigion putidum drawing ok; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 photo not = B appendiculatum; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 6 2008 photo fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo not = B appendiculatum; Bulbophyllum: the incomplete Guide From A to why? Bill Thoms 2009 photos fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as B fascinator photo fide; Wild Orchids of Myanmar Nyan Tun Taunggyi 2014 as B putidum photo not; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #4 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #3 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #2 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 11 2017 as B fascinator f semi alba photo fide;

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