Bulbophyllum schefferi (Kuntze) Schltr. 1915 SECTION Macrocaulia (Bl.) Aver 1994

Plant and Flower Photos by © J.B. Comber and The Swiss Orchdi Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Scheffer's Bulbophyllum [Dutch Botanist and director of Bogor later 1800's]

Flower Size .16" [4mm]

Found in Java, Sumatra, Sabah, Kalimantan and Sarawak Borneo, Bali, as well as the Philippines in lowland and hill forests at elevations of 400 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a chain of ovoid, adnate to the rhizome pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, thick, elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, erect, .32" [8 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Bulbophyllum bilobipetalum J.J.Sm. 1927; Bulbophyllum corticicola Schltr. 1910; Bulbophyllum gracile (Blume) Lindl. 1830; Bulbophyllum marcidum Ames 1923; Diphyes gracilis Blume 1825; *Phyllorkis schefferi Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids Of Borneo Vol 2 Vermuellen 1991 drawing/photo hmm; A checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; 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 hmm/photo fide;

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