Bulbophyllum caudatum 'Trident' CHM/AOS Lindley 1829 SECTION Umbellatae Bentham 1883 Photo and award winning plant grown by Wilford Neptune
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Common Name The Tailed Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in northeastern India, Nepal and Sikkim on tree trunks in tropical valleys at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, mat-forming, cool to warm growing epiphyte and does best mounted on tree fern and has a long woody rhizome with [2.8 to 7 cm] between each ovoid, slightly angular, compressed, grooved psuedobulbs carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, petioalte base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a short, basal inflorescence with a few basal, lanceolate,a cute sheaths and lanceolate floral bracts all carrying an apical umbel of a few flowers at the apex. Similar to B vaginatum but smaller in all aspects.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum nilgherrense Wight 1851; Bulbophyllum sterile (Lam.) Suresh 1988; Cirrhopetalum caudatum [Lindley] King & Pantling 1898; Phyllorchis caudata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Phyllorchis nilgherensis (Wight) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfadden 1973 drawing; Orchid Genera in Thailand Seidenfaden 1990; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Flora of China 25: 404–440. 2009
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