Bulbophyllum bisetum Lindl. 1842 SECTION Bisetta J.J.Verm. 2001 Photo By © Bernard Macdonald

Inflorescence Photo By © Ron Parsons

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Common Name The Two Bristled Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .2 to .25" [5 to 7 mm]

Found in Assam, eastern Himalayas and Thailand in dense grazed forests at elevations around 1000 to 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a slender branched rhizome with 3/4" to 2.4" [1.8 to 6 cm] between each ovoid to conical to flask-shaped pseudobulbs enveloped by fibrous basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, obliquely bilobed apically, gradually narrowing into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and early fall on a pendent, basal, racemose, filiform, glabrous, 1.2 to 2.8" [3 to 7 cm] long, subdensely 4 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts

Synonyms Bolbophyllaria biseta (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Bulbophyllum cirrhopetaloides Griff. 1851; Phyllorchis biseta (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok;

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