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 hill to lower montane forests at elevations of 500 to 1200 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 ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfadden 1973 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 2 1983 photo; Orchid Digest vol 48 no 2 1984 photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Teo 1985; Orchid Genera of Thailand Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou 1990; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfadden and Wood 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Orchids Of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 11 2003 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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