Bulbophyllum lemniscatum Par.ex Hook.f. 1872 SECTION Pleiophyllus J.J.Sm. 1914 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

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Common Name The Tape Decorated Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1/10" [2.5 mm]

Not checked by Garay

Found in Thailand and Myanamar as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte at elevations around 400 meters that has globose, rough pseudobulbs set close together carrying 3, deciduous, lanceolate leaves that fall off at blooming which occurs in the fall and winter on a basal, arising on a mature often leafless pseudobulb, erect, 4 2/5" to 6" [11 to 15 cm] long inflorescence, having 2 ovate bracts, with an apical cluster of many small flowers. This species does well mounted on cork or tree fern.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum lemniscatum var tumidum Par & Rchb.f 1874; Phyllorchis lemniscatum [Par ex Hkr.] Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VIII Bulbiphyllum Thou. Seidenfaden 1990; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 69 No 2 2000 photo; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo;

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