Bulbophyllum crassipes Hook. f. 1896 SECTION Anisopetalum [Hkr.] Lindl. 1846

Photos courtesy of David Jubineau Copyright ©, and his Bulbophyllum page

Flower Closeup Photo by Art Vogel

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Bob Fallon Copyright ©, and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

Common Name The Thick Spured Bulbophyllum - In China Duan Er SHi Dou Lan

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in Assam, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, India, Andaman Islands, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in evergreen broad leaved forests on tree trunks at elevations of 1100 to 1200 meters as a small sized, 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 spring on an erect, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long inflorescence enveloped with oblong floral bracts and many sour smelling 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; Die Orchideen #1 1-4 tafel 1&2 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Orchid Genera of Thiland Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou. Seidenfadden 1979/90; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 6 1983 photo; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfadden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 drawing ok; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok/photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok

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