Bulbophyllum brevibrachiatum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912 SECTION Cirrhopetalum

Plant and Flower Photo by © Peter O'Byrne.

Another flower? Photo courtesy of © Ron Parsons.

Common Name The Short Bracted Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1" long [2.5 cm] long

Found in Sulawesi and the Philippines in primary forests and in plantations along streams at elevations around 100 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pushed over, ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, broadly elliptical, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, erect, 12" [30 cm] long, few to several flowered inflorescence with the flowers held in an umbel at the apex. .

Synonyms *Cirrhopetalum brevibrachiatum Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfaden 1973 drawing fide; Orchids of The Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide as Cirrhopetalum brevibrachiatum; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Vermeullen & O'Byrne 2011 drawing/photo fide;

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