Bulbophyllum laxiflorum [Bl.] Lindl. 1830 SECTION Corymbosia
Plant in situ Thailand Photos by © David Kuehn
Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Bill Bergstrom and Berstrom Orchids
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Common Name The scientific name is refering to the loosely flowered inflorescence
Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]
Found in Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Borneo, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Java and the Philippines in riverine, lowland hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 100 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing, unifoliate epiphyte with .2 to .8" [.5 to 2 cm] between each cylindrical pseudobulbs and a single apical, leathery, elliptic, acute at the apex, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, basal, 2 7/8" or more [7 cm or more] long, several to many [20] flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers held in an umbel, at, or near leaf height that can occur at most any time of the year.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum laxiflorum var celibicum Schlechter 1911; Bulbophyllum luzonense Ames 1912; Bulbophyllum laxiflorum [Bl.] Lindl. 1830; Bulbophyllum luzonense Ames 1912; Bulbophyllum pedicellatum Ridl. 1896; Bulbophyllum radiatum Lindl. 1830; Bulbophyllum syllectum Kraenzl. 1921; *Diphyes laxiflora Blume 1825; Phyllorchis laxiflora (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Phyllorkis radiata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Bulb radiatum; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holtum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as B pedicilattum; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as B luzonense; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VIII Bulbiphyllum Thou. Seidenfaden 1990; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfadden and Wood 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2000; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003
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Bulbophyllum laxiflorum [Bl.] Lindl. 1830 var majus
A larger, yellow color form of the previous species.
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Java at 1200 meters as a warm growing epiphyte.
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