Bulbophyllum affine Lindley 1833 SECTION Sestochilus [Breda]Benth & Hkr.f 1883 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl
Well grown Plant with flowers Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Flicker Orchid Photostream
To 
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Similar Bulbophyllum - In China Chi Chun Shi Dou Lan
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
This miniature plant comes from the western Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, southern China, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Ryukyus Islands in evergreen lowland forests at elevations of 600 to 1800 meters and is a small sized, cool to warm growing, unifoliate epiphyte with 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] between each thin, slightly basally thickened, elongate psuedobulbs carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong, obtuse, narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf and blooms on a basal, slender, to 2 3/4" [7 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves, occuring from altitudes of 800-2000 meters that thrives in teak baskets with tree fern and wood chips and blooms in the late spring and early summer.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum kusukuensis Hayata 1914; Phyllorchis affinis (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Sarcopodium affine (Lindl.) Lindl. & Paxton 1850
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 1 1958 drawing; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 40 Bulbophyllinae 1983 drawing; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974; AOS Bulletin Vol 52 No 9 1983 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 56 No 12 1987 photo; Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Bulbophyllum Thou. Seidenfadden 1990; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2001; Bulbophyllums and their Allies Siegerist 2001; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001 photo fide; drawing fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 2 2005; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China 25: 404–440. 2009; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------