Bulbophyllum capitatum (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Desmosanthes [Bl.] J.J. Sm. 1933
Plant and Inflorescence Photos by © Dian Rahardjo and Dikara Orchids Flickr Orchid Website
Common Name The Head-Shaped Bulbophyllum [refers to the shape of the Inflorescence]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found only in Java and Sarawak Borneo in forests at eleavtions of 1000 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] between each laterally flattened, ovate-oblong pseudobulbs carrying long-ovate, acute4, tough, drawk green, petiolate base leaves that blooms on an arising from the rhizome, short to 1.6" [4 cm], 9 or more flowered inflorescence, nodding,
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.
Synonyms *Diphyes capitata Blume 1825; Phyllorkis capitata (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Phyllorkis diphyes Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;
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