Bulbophyllum shanicum King & Pantl. 1897 SECTION Pleiophyllus J.J.Sm. 1914 Drawing by © Ji Chaozhen and Flora Of China Website

EARLY

Common Name The Shan Mountain Bulbophyllum - In China Er Ye Shi Dou Lan

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in southwest Yunnan and Myanamar in dense forests onrocks at elevations of 1800 to 1900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome that has .4 t o.8" [1 to 2 cm] between each ovoid pseudobulb carrying 2, apical, erect, deciduous, subsessile, ovbovate-lanceoalte, leathrey, rounded and emarginate apically leaves that blooms in the early fall on a basal, on a leafless pseudobulb, erect, glabrous, 4.4 to 6.8" [11 to 17 cm] long, secund, densely many flowered inflorescence with 5 tubular sheaths and small, lanceolate floral bracts as well as carrying secund flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide;

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