Bulbophyllum strigosum (Garay) Sieder & Kiehn 2009 SECTION Cirrhopetalum [Lindl.] Rchb.f 1861
Photo courtesy of Jo Levy Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives
TYPE Drawing by Dr Leslie Garay Archives
Common Name The Rigid-Haired Rhytionanthos [refers to the hairs on the lip]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in northern Vietnam as a small sized epiphyte with a repent rhizome with close set, ovoid, suberect pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong, abtuse apically, subpetiolate base leaf that blooms on a thin, provided with 2 sheaths, much shorter than the ealf, 2.8" [7 cm] long, apically 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, cucullate floral bracts and carrying somewhat fleshy, externally muricate flowers
Closely related to B forestii, B helenae and B nodosum but differs in the few flowered inflorescence and a distinctly strigose lip
Synonyms *Rhytionanthos strigosus L.A.Garay 1999
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Harvard Papers in Botany Vol4 #1 Orchid Species Currently in Cultivation Garay 1999 as Rhytionanthos strigosum drawing fide;
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