Bulbophyllum retusiusculum Rchb. f. 1869 SECTION Cirrhopetalum Lindley 1824 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids.
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Common Name The Blunted Cirrhopetalum
Flower Size 5/8" to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm]
Occuring in China, Nepal, eastern Himalayas, Assam India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, and Taiwan in evergreen lowland forests or primary montane forests as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic or occasional lithophytic species that is found at altitudes of 300 to 2600 meters with .4 to 1.2" [1 to 3 cm] between each slender, ovate-conical, weakly falcate psuedobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, gradually narrowing below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a basal, from the pseudobulb, erect, slender, 4" [10 cm] long, 6 to 12 flowered, umbellate inflorescence with a few distant, tubular, lanceolate bracts and narrowly lanceolte, acuminate floral bractsthat has an apical umbel of several [12] flowers that blooms in the fall. This species was named in the same artilcle as *Cirrhopetalum retusiusculum Rchb. f. 1869.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum flavisepalum Hayata 1912 ; Bulbophyllum langbianense Seidenf. & Smitin. 1965; Bulbophyllum micholitzii (Rolfe) J.J.Sm.1912; Bulbophyllum muscicola Schltr. 1913 has globose pseudobulbs; Bulbophyllum oreogenes (W.W.Sm.) Seidenf. 1973 publ. 1974; Bulbophyllum pumilio Auct. non Par. & Rchb.f; *Bulbophyllum retusiusculum Rchb. f. 1869; Bulbophyllum retusiusculum var. oreogenes (W.W.Sm.) Z.H.Tsi 1995; Cirrhopetalum flavisepalum (Hayata) Hayata 1917; Cirrhopetalum micholitzii Rolfe 1912; Cirrhopetalum oreogenes Auct. no W.W.Sm. 1934; Cirrhopetalum retusiusculum Rchb. f. 1869; Cirrhopetalum touranense Gagnep. 1931; Phyllorchis retusiuscula (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide;
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