Bulbophyllum eublepharum Rchb.f. 1861SECTION Hirtula

Plant and Flower Drawings by © Bengal Secretariat Press and JD Hooker The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Beautiful Lash Bulbophyllum [refers to the serrate-fimbriate petals] - In China Mo Tuo Shi Dou Lan

Flower Size .1 to .12" [5 to 6 mm]

Found in China, eastern Himalayas and Myanamar in open montane forests at elevations around 2000 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with clustered, cylindrical pseudobulbs that widen slightly towards the base and are enveloped partially by imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, acute, narrowing to a channeled, shortly petiolate to subsessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on a basal, glabrous, 19 to 35" [32.5 to 85 cm] long, slender, racemose, laxly 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with basally clasping, spreading above, lanceolate, subacute, linear-lanceolate, acute floral bracts

Synonyms Bulbophyllum yuanyangense Z.H.Tsi 1995; Phyllorchis eublephara (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001; The Orchids Of Bhutan Cribb & Pearce 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;

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