Bulbophyllum abbrevilabium Carr 1932 SECTION Epicrianthes

Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Jaap Vermeulen, André Schuiteman and Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Short Lipped Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1/4" [8 mm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam at elevations around 700 meters as a mniature sized, pendant, hot growing epiphyte with a pendulous rhizome carrying close set, adpressed to the rhizome, oblong, rugose with age, laterally flatteened pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, gradually narrowing at the acute apex as well as below into the twisted, short, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, very short, single flowered inflorescence and holding the flower to the base of the leaf

Synonyms Epicranthes abbrevilabia (Carr) Garay & W.Kittr. 1985 publ. 1986; Epicranthes annamensis Guillaumin 1957

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VIII Seidenfaden 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992;