Bulbophyllum wallichii Rchb.f. 1861 SECTION Tripudianthes Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids.

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Common Name Wallich's Bulbophyllum [English Supervisor of Calcutta Botanical Garden 1800's] - In China Shuang Ye Juan Ban Lan

Flower Size .8 to 2.8" [2 to 7 cm]

Found in Yunnan Province of China, Assam India, the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam on trees in forests at elevations around 1000 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with shortly conical, broad based, rugose at flowering pseudobulbs carrying 2, absent at flowering, apical, oblong to oblong-elliptic, acute to subacute, sessile to shortly petiolate base leavse that blooms in the spring on a lateral, from the pseudobulb, erect, slender, decurved, 3.2 to 5.2" [8 to 13 cm] long, racemose, laxly 4 to 12 flowered inflorescence with 2, tubular basal sheaths and 2, lanceolate, acute upper ones as well as narrowly lanceolate to ovate, acute to acuminate floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum refractoides Seidenf. 1970; Cirrhopetalum wallichii Lindl. 1839; Tripudianthes wallichii (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Kras 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Cirrhopetalum wallichii drawing not; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997 photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001 drawing/photo ok; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 2 Tanaka 2004; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide

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