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Plant and Flowers in situ ThailandPhotos by © Hendrik Jacobs and Orchids Online Australia Website

Common Name The Crawling Bulbophyllum - In China Qiu Hua Shi Dou Lan

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Assam, Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Vietnam on tree trunks in dense forests at elevations around 300 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with close set, subovoid, small pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowing towards the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, short, globose, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-triangular floral bracts and carrying flowers that smell of fungus.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum khasianum Rchb.f. 1874; Bulbophyllum moroides J.J.Sm. 1917; Bulbophyllum poilanei Gagnep.1930; Phyllorkis repens (Griff.) Kuntze 1891;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi and Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as B poilanei Photos fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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