Showing posts with label Bulbophyllum subumbellatum. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

BULBOPHYLLUM SUBUMBELLATUM RIDL. 1895

SECTION : Leopardinae Bentham 1883
Flower Size 2" (5 cm)

Found in Pennisular Malaysia and Borneo in lowland swamp forests on tree trunks and branches at elevations of sea-level to 250 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 2 to 5" between each narrowly cylindric pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, acute leaf that blooms on an slender, 4" (10 cm) long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers that do not open well.