Bulbophyllum nigripetalum Rolfe 1891 SECTION Hirtula Ridley 1908 Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website
Plant Photos courtesy of Rudi Hromniak and his © and his Orchid Webpage
Common Name The Black Petaled Bulbophyllum - In China Hei Ban Shi Dou Lan
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Yunnan Province China and Thailand in forests at elevations of 1000 to 1300 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with up to 1" [2.5 cm] between each close, ovoid to broadly conic pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, obtuse, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an elongate, erect to spreading, rather lax, 6" to 19.8" [15 to 49 cm] long, 13 to 32 flowered inflorescence with about 5 bracts and triangular, acuminate floral bracts
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Monographs Vol 2 - A Taxonomic Revision of the Continental African Bulbophyllinae Vermeullen 1987; Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Bulbophyllum Thou Seidenfaden 1990 as B secundum; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide
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