Bulbophyllum ovalifolium Lindl. 1830 SECTION Monilibulbus J.J.Sm. 1914 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

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Common Name The Oval-Leafed Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 1/2" to 3/4" [1.25 cm to 2]

Found in Java, Sulawesi, Borneo, Sumatra And Malaysia at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters where it is common in montane forests as a miniature, cool to warm growing epiphyte with oblong, flattened pseudobulbs with raised and diverging ends carrying a single, apical, elliptic, apically blunt leaf which gradually narrows into a short petiole and blooms on a 1 1/2" to 2 1/2"[3.75 to 6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence holding the flower above the leaf occurrng in summer till winter.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum parvulum Lindl. 1830; Bulbophyllum tinea Ridl. 1909; *Diphyes ovalifolia Bl. 1825; Diphyes pusilla Blume 1825; Phyllorchis ovalifolia [Bl] Kuntze 1891; Phyllorchis parvula (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermeullen 1991; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfadden and Wood 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;A to Z Of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002