Bulbophyllum levinei Schltr. 1924 SECTION Racemosae

Photos by © Roger Van Vugt and his P base Orchid Photo Website

Another color, hore hairy petals Photos by © Orchidphotos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Webpage

Another Flower - B insulsum Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Levine's Bulbophyllum - In China Chi Ban Shi Dou Lan

Flower Size 1/8" [.4 cm]

Found in Vietnam, Hong Kong and Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan. Jiangxi, Yunnan and Zhejiang provinces of China mostly on mossy rocks along valleys but also in forests on tree trunks as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte in forests at 900 to 2000 meters with ovoid, close set subcylindric to bottle-shaped pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, thinly leathery, narrowly oblong to obovate-lanceolate, slightly undulate margin, subacute, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring through summer on a basal, erect, 3 to 4 flowered, 3/4" to 4 3/4" [2 to 12 cm] long inflorescence with the several [2 to 12] flowers held at leaf height.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum insulsum (Gagnep.) Seidenf. 1973 publ. 1974; Cirrhopetalum insulsum Gagnep.1950

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 as B insulsum photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as B insulsum photos hmm; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos hmm; The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide;

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