Bulbophyllum xylophyllum C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f. 1874 SECTION Brachystachyae Benth. & Hook. f. 1883
Inflorescence and Ruler Photos by © Manorot Tangsaveepha and hisButterfly and Orchids Website
Common Name The Woody Leafed Bulbophyllum
Flower Size 1/6" [3 mm]
Found in Bhutan, Assam, India, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam around elevations of 410 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with minute, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, stiff, elliptic to broadly elliptic, petiolate leaf that blooms in the spring and summer with a basal, from the rhizome, erect, 2" [5 cm] long inflorescence with 2 basal acuminate bracts and another towards the middle and carrying an apical cluster of a few flowers
Synonyms Phyllorchis xylophylla (C.S.P.Parish & 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; Orchid Genera of Thailand Vol VIII Bulbophyllum Thou. Seidenfaden 1990; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide;
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