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Bulbophyllum alsiosum Ames 1912 SECTION Sestochilus [Breda]Benth & Hkr.f 1883

Common Name

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in the Philippines on the island of Negros on mossy tree trunks at elevations of 600 to 1300 meters as a creeping, miniature to just small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with long, creeping, sheathed rhizome giving rise to 2 to 3.6" [5 to 9 cm] apart, tapering, cylindrical pseudobulbs envelopd by loose, acute, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-elliptic, acute, leathery, purple striate, gradually narrowing below into the slender, channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, single flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003