Bulbophyllum rufilabrum Parish ex Hook. f. 1890 SECTION Anisopetalum [Hkr.] Lindl. 1846
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Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Bob Fallon Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives
Common Name The Fox Red Lip Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1/5" [.5 cm]
Found in Thailand, Burma and India? as a mini- miniature sized, hot growing unifoliate epiphyte with four sided, broadly ovoid, ribbed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, subsessile, elliptic to oblong, violet beneath leaf that blooms in the fall on a 2 2/5" [6 cm] long inflorescence with several to many, [10 to 12] smaller flowers held at or just above leaf height.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum limbatum Par & Rchb.f 1888; Phyllorchis rufilabra (C.S.P.Parish ex Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou Seidenfaden 1990; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide
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