Bulbophyllum comosum Collett & Hemsl. 1890 SECTION Pleiophyllus

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech

Common Name The Hairy Bulbophyllum - The Bottle-Brush Orchid

Flower Size 3/4" long [1.85 cm]

Found in India, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam? at elevations of 1850 to 2000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with terete, pseudsobulbs carrying two apical, papery deciduous leaves that fall just before blooming which is in the winter on a thick, 10" [25 cm] long, pendant to erect, densely many flowered, cylindrically racemose inflorescence with dangling, hirsute, fragrant [cinnamon] flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou. Seidenfaden 1990; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004;

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