Bulbophyllum moniliforme Par & Rchb.f 1874 SECTION Minutissima Pfitzer 1888 Photos courtesy of Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

To

Common Name The Necklace Bulbophyllum The Red Bead Orchid

Flower Size 3/16" [1 mm]

Found in Queensland and New South Wales Australia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, India, Myanamar and Thailand as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte at elevations around 20 to 800 meters with very small, wrinkled, round, glossy green pseudobulbs in clusters with a single, apical, tiny, deciduous leaf that blooms in the winter after leaf-fall on a 3/4" [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence holding the flowers above the leaf. One of the smallest sized orchid of the Bulbophyllum.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum minutissimum F. Muell. 1878; Dendrobium minutissimum F.Muell. 1866; Dendrobium nummulifolium R.King 1879; Oncophyllum minutissimum (F.Muell.) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001; Phyllorchis minutissima (F.Muell.) Kuntze 1891; Phyllorchis moniliformis (Parish & Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980 as B minutissimum; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VIII Bulbiphyllum Thou. Seidenfaden 1990; Miniature Orchids McQueen 1992 as B minutissimum; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001 as B minutissimum; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Oncophyllum minutissimum

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------