Bulbophyllum bittnerianum Schlechter 1910 SECTION Anisopetalum [Hkr.] Lindl. 1846
Inflorescence and plant Photo by © Manorot Tangsaveepha and His Butterfly & Orchids Website
Wide Open Flowers Photo courtesy of Ichiro "Haru" Ohsaka
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Common Name Bittner's Bulbophyllum - In China Tuan Hua Shi Dou Lan
Flower Size 2" Long [5 cm]
This small sized, hot growing species is only from Thailand in evergreen broad leaved forests on tree trunks at elevations around 1700 meters and has a woody rhizome with 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] between each, garlic-like shaped, 4 ribbed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong, subobtuse, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring to early summer, arising from the base of the newest formed pseudobulb with a sheathed, thick, [3+] , 4" [10 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence that has an apical cluster of flowers held at mid-leaf height.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum bractescens Rolfe ex Kerr 1927
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Genera of Thailand Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou 1990; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide
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