Bulbophyllum cheiri Lindl. 1844 SECTION Stenochilus J.J.Sm. 1914 Photo by © Nt Gerald and Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Common Name Cheir's Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm] long
Found in Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines in mangrove woodlands and other lowland forests as an epiphyte and on sea-facing cliffs as a lithophyte at elevations of sealevel to 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] between each cylindrical, short pseudobulb carrying a single apical, erect, oblong, blunt, bilobed, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, erect, [.4" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a few basal, imbricate sheaths
Synonyms Bulbophyllum megalanthum Griff.1851; Phyllorchis cheiri (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Phyllorchis megalantha (Griff.) Kuntze 1891; Sarcopodium cheiri (Lindl.) Lindl. & Paxton 1850; Sarcopodium megalanthum (Griff.) Lindl. 1853
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo not = Bulb masdevalliceum; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 as a syn of B blumei not; Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermuellen 1991 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 as B aff. cheiri another species; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 2 2005; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Verm. & O'Byrne 2011 drawing ok
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