Bulbophyllum careyanum (Hook.) Spreng. 1826 SECTION Anisopetalum [Hkr.] Lindl. 1846 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Whole inflorescence Photo by Jean Claude George

Whole inflorescence? Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name Carey's Bulbophyllum [English Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size Less than 1/2" [less than 1.25 cm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myananmar, Thailand, and Vietnam in evergreen lowland forests as a small sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte at elevations of 200 to 2100 meters with remote, spherical to oblong, lightly grooved pseudobulbs with a single apical, oblong to linear oblong, tapering at each end, sub-sessile below , sub-acute and notched apically leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a basal, stout, brown, to 9 1/4" [23 cm] long, lateral to hanging, many flowered inflorescence with many lanceolate, brown bracts and carrying foul smelling flowers with lanceolate floral bracts that are longer than the ovary and all held in a dense cylindric raceme. Best grown on tree fern or cork, kept wet although allowed to dry out and hot to cool conditions with slight shade.

Synonyms *Anisopetalum careyanum Hook. 1825; Bulbophyllum careyanum var ochraceum Hkr. 1890; Bulbophyllum cupreum auct. no Lindl 1862; Bulbophyllum cupreum Hook. non Lindl. 1862; Phyllorchis purpurea (Hook.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis purpurea D. Don 1825; Tribrachia purpurea [D.Don] Lindl. 1826;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 28 No 2 1959 photo; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 6 1983 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 12 1987 photo; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001 drawing hmm/photo ok; Orchid Genera of Thailand Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou 1990; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1987; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing ok; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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