Bulbophyllum maquilingense Ames & Quisumb. 1932 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008 Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Another Flower Aspect Photos courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum & Co. WebsiteCopyright ©

Nodding aspect to Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Mount Makiling Bulbophyllum [A mountain in Luzon Philippines]

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found only in the Philippines at elevations of 1000 meters in montane forests on bases of small trees and shrubs as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, conical, smooth or grooved pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, leathery, elliptic, obtuse, grooved above, keeled below leaf witha vert short petiole and blooms on 3 to 8, erect, basal, thread-like, 1.2" to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with funnel shaped bracts and arising in the spring.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; New species of Bulbophyllum from eastern Malesia (Orchidaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany 26: 129
195, 2008 Vermuellen

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