Bulbophyllum crassipes Hook. f. 1896 SECTION Careyana Pfitzer 1888

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Common Name The Thick Spured Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in Assam, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, India, Andaman Islands, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with conical, smooth pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical oblong, obtuse, or shortly mucronate, petiolate and thickly coriaceous leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long inflorescence enveloped with oblong floral bracts and many flowers held next to the pseudobulb, needing partial shade and regular waterings. Very similar to B careyanum but differs in the small stelidia on the column that point forward and the broad "U" shape of the labellum.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum careyanum var. crassipes (Hook.f.) Pradhan 1979; Phyllorchis crassipes [HKR.f] Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Orchid Genera of Thiland Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou. Seidenfadden 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore seidenfadden & Wood 1992; Encyclopedia of Cultivated orchids Hawkes 1987; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002