Bulbophyllum bariense Gagnep. 1930 SECTION Racemosae Photo courtesy of Jo Levy Copyright ©, Leslie Garay Archives

Common Name The Bari Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1/5" [5 cm]

Found in Vietnam in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savanna-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 700 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an ovoid pseudobulb carrying a single apical, leaf thaqt blooms on a basal, distantly sheathed, 4" scape with a 1 to 2" rhachis carrying a few flowers. This species is similar to B orientale but differs by having a short, densly many flowered rachis and a 1 to 2" spathe that is almost completly enveloped by imbricating basal sheaths.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou. Seidenfadden 1990