Bulbophyllum pallidum Seidenf. 1979 SECTION Pleiophyllus J.J.Sm. 1914

Inflorescence Photo by Grobraschener Orchids Website

Common Name The Pale Bulbophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Thailand around 1600 meters in elevation as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with glossy, globular, dark green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few scarious sheaths adnd carrying 2 apical, dark green, acute, deciduous leaves that blooms in the winter often without the leaves on a basal, arching, 6 to 7.2" [15 to 18 cm] long, 20 to 25 flowered inflorescence with acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Not to be confused with with Cirrhopetalum pallidum which is now B purpurescens

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so use with caution.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII Seidenfaden 1979

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