Bulbophyllum maxillare [Lindley]Rchb.f 1861 SECTION Polymeres Verm & O'Byrne 2008 Photo by © Art Vogel
Lip Detail Photos courtesy of Bob Fallon Copyright ©, and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives
Common Name The Chinbone Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in penninsular Malayasia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Sulawesi, New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Australia as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte on tree trunks at elevations of sealevel to 600 meters in stunted woodlands and has tapered, unifoliate pseudobulbs with an ovate to elliptic, leathery leaf and blooms on an erect, single flowered, 6" [15 cm] long inflorescence that holds the leaf just below or at leaf height
Synonyms *Cirrhopetalum maxillare Lindley 1843; Phyllorchis maxillaris (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermeullen 1991 as Bulbophyllum blumei; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfadden and Wood 1992 drawing 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: 129195, 2008 Vermuellen; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Vermeullen & O'Byrne 2011 drawing/photo fide;
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