Bulbophyllum biflorum Teijsm. & Binn. 1855 SECTION Biflorae Garay, Hamer, & Siegrist 1994 [TYPE] Photo courtesy of Dave Alford

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Common Name The Two-Flowered Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm] long

Found in Java, Sumatra, Bali, Borneo, the Philippines and the Thai and Malaysian peninsula, on tree trunks in shady montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to hot growing epiphytic species with ovate, strongly 4 angled, yellow pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, thin, oblong, apically blunt, shortly petiolate leaves that blooms on a basal, thin, wiry, semi-pendulous, 2 3/4" to 4.1" [7 to 11 cm] long, 2 flowered inflorescence carrying scented flowers occuring in the summer.

Synonyms Cirrhopetalum biflorum [Teijsm. & Binn]J.J.Sm. 1905

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfadden 1973; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Teo 1985; Orchid Genera of Thailand Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou 1990; Orchids Of the Philippines Cootes, 2001; Orchids ofPenninsular Malaysia and SIngapore Seidenfadden and Wood 1992; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2001; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003

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