Bulbophyllum mucronatum (Blume) Lindl. 1830 SECTION Minutissima Pfitzer 1888
Another View Photos by © Art Vogel
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Common Name The Mucronate Bulbophyllum [may refer to the mucronate apex of the leaves]
Flower Size .28” [7mm]
Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, western Java, Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines, in primary forests at elevations of 600 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome and .8" [2 cm] between each ovoid pseudobulb and carrying a single, apical, ovate-oblong, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, basal, .22" [6mm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum mucronatum (Blume) Lindl. 1830 var alagense [Ames] J.J.Verm & O’Byrne 2011; Diphyes mucronata Blume 1825; Phyllorchis mucronata (Blume) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Verm. & O'Byrne 2011 drawing/photo ok
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