Bulbophyllum holttumii A.D.Hawkes 1956 SECTION Brachystachyae Benth. & Hook. f. 1883 Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website.

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of MR.TIPOL RUANGAKSORN and Exotic Bulbophyllum

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Common Name Holttum's Bulbophyllum [English Botanist in SE Asia 1900's]

Flower Size 1/4" [6 cm]

Found in Thailand and Malaysia as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid, pseudobulbs carrying a single, apcial, eret, stiff, apically rounded and very shortly pointed leaf that basally narrows into a petiole and blooms in the winter and spring on a slender, erect, then drooping at an obtuse angle, 6" [15 cm] long inflorescence with 14 flowers in a tight apical cluster.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum apiferum Carr 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Bulbophyllum Thou. Seidenfadden 1990; Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing close; Thirty Two New Species of Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae)from Sulawesi J.J. VERMEULEN 1 AND P. O’BYRNE Gard. Bulletin Singapore 60 (1): 73-153 2008; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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