Bulbophyllum yoksunense J.J.Sm.1912 SECTION 13 [Former Cirrhopetalum members]
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Art Vogel
Drawing Drawing by © Pantling and the Swiss Orchid Foundation
Common Name The Yoksun Bulbophyllum [Yoksam a village in Sikkim]
Flower Size .2" [5mm] wide
Found in Nepal, the eastern Himalayas, Myanamar and Malaysia? in subtropical mixed forests at elevations around 1800 to 2700 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 1.8 to 3.6" [4.5 to 9 cm] between each cylindric, narrowing above and curved pseudobulbs enveloped below by white sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, obtuse, narrowing below into the sessile to shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, 1" [2.5 cm] long, 6 to 12 flowered, racemose to sub-umbellate inflorescence arising through the sheath and holding the flowers at the apex in a loose umbel.
I have my doubts about the photos being correct so I have included a drawing. Often cited as synomonous with B emarginatum, I have left them separate for now.
Synonyms Bulbophyllum brachypodum A.S.Rao & N.P.Balakr.1969; Bulbophyllum brachypodum var. parviflorum Rao & N.P.Balakr. 1969; Bulbophyllum yoksunense var. parviflorum (Rao & N.P.Balakr.) Bennet 1983; Cirrhopetalum brevipes Hook.f. 1896; Phyllorkis brevipes (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1891 as Cirrhopetalum brevipes drawing no; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Cirrhopetalum brevipes drawing ok?; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfaden 1973 drawing ok; Orchid Digest VOl 44 NO 4 1980 as Cirrhopetalum brevipes; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; Orchids Of India II Biodiversity & Status of Bulbophyllum Thou Augustine & Kumar 2001; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China 25: 404–440. 2009 as syn of B emarginatum
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