Bulbophyllum muscarirubrum Seidenf. 1979 SECTION Tripudianthes Seidenfadden 1979 Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Gerardus Staal
Another Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery
Common Name The Brick-Red Brush Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1/8" [.3 cm]
Found in Thailand at elevations around 1100 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and has globulbar, somewhat irregularly flattened with age, closely spaced pseuobulbs carrying 2 apical, deciduous, greyish green, waxy, lanceolate, basally loosely conduplicate leaves that fall before blooming on a basal, 1" [2.5 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with 10 to 15 flowers which occurs in the spring.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VIII Bulbiphyllum Thou. Seidenfaden 1990
