Bulbophyllum transarisanensis Hayata 1916 SECTION Leopardinae Bentham 1883

Green Clone Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

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Common Name The Bulbophyllum from the other side of Mt. A Li Shan

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Blooms on a basal, 2 3/4" [7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with wide cupped sheaths occuring in the summer in Taiwan at elevations of 1500 to 2500 meters and is a miniature sized, warm to cool growing, unifoliate epiphyte that requires semi-shade and has close set, ovoid pseudobulbs and a single apical, elongate oblong, obtuse to acute, contracted into the shortly petiolate base leaf.

Cited as a synonym of Bulbophyllum pectinatum, visually they are very similar.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum pectinatum var. transarisanense (Hayata) S.S. Ying 1996; Bulbophyllum viridiflorum Hayata 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones plantarum formosanarum nec non et contributiones ad floram formosanam. 2: 139-140. Hayata 1912 as B viridiflorum; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001

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