Bulbophyllum bittnerianum Schlechter 1910 SECTION Racemosae
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
Flower Size 2" Long [5 cm]
This small sized, hot growing species is only from Thailand and has a woody rhizome with well spaced, garlic-like pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, lanceolate leaf that blooms in the 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 1987; Orchid Genera of Thailand Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou 1990;
