Bulbophyllum foetidolens Carr 1930 SECTION Sestochilus Photo by © Amos Tan , and Asiatic Green Orchid Website

inflorescence Photo courtesy of Bob Fallon Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

Common Name The Rotten Smelling Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

Found in Penninsular Malaysia and Borneo in mixed hill forests, lower montane or riverine forests or on sandstone and other boulders at elevations around 500 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with a sheathed rhizome carrying 2 1/8' separated, slightly flatttened pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, petiolate leaf that is narrowed equally to the base and the apex that blooms on a dark red-purple, erect, 5 1/8" [13cm] long, drooping, many closely set flowered inflorescence. The anther cap of the flower in the species is remarkable because of the conical, papillose projection at the front near the appex..

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide;

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