Bulbophyllum ovalifolium Lindl. 1830 SECTION Macrocaulia (Bl.) Aver 1994 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Plant and Flower Photo By Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

Plant and Flower in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photo by David Kuehn

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Common Name The Oval-Leafed Bulbophyllum - In China Luan Ye Shi Dou Lan

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

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, lesser Sunda Islands and Sulawesi 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 spring through fall

The flower has a lot of variations through its range.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum ovatilabellum Seidenf. 1979; 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; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 2 Vermeullen 1991 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfadden and Wood 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A to Z Of SE Asian Orchids O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 as B ovalilabellum sic photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Bulbophyllum of Sulawesi Verm. & O’Byrne 2011 Drawing/photo fide

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