Bulbophyllum acuminatum [Ridl.] Ridl. 1907 SECTION Cirrhopetalum Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

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Common Name The Tapering Flower Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 5/8" [1.75 cm]

Found in Thailand, Burma and pennisular Malaysia in podosol forests as a hot growing, unifoliate epiphyte at elevations of sea-level to 600 meters with globose to conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, slender, narrowing equally from bilobed apex to base leaf that blooms on a basal, slender, 8" [20 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence with the flowers held in an apical umbel over the leaf occuring from the fall to late spring and is best mounted or put in a wood slat basket.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum semibifidum [Ridl.] Ridl. 1907; *Cirrhopetalum acuminatum Ridl. 1896; Cirrhopetalum linearfolium Ridl. 1896; Cirrhopetalum semibifidum Ridl. 1896;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Seidenfaden & Woods 1992; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1982; Notes on Cirrhopewtalum Seidenfaden 1987; Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Bulbophyllum Thou. Seidenfadden 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A to Z of SE Asian Orchids Obyrne 2001;