Cirrhopetalum umbellatum [Forst.] Hkr. & Arn 1832 SECTION Cirrhopetalum Lindley 1824 Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey. plant grown by Howard Gunn

View from above Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Another Plant From Sabah Photo courtesy of Zainal Abidin Bin Othman

Common Name The Umbrella Cirrhopetalum - The Pale Umbrella Orchid

Flower Size 2" Long [5 cm]

A small sized, hot to warm growing, unifoliate epiphyte found in Africa, Madagascar, Mascarenes, Seychelles and on into Malaysia, Queensland Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Fiji and the Society and Austral Islands in rainforests and hill forests at elevations of sealevel to 1700 meters near and over watercourses on vertical tree trunks with obliquely conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong, petiolate leaf that blooms from summer through autumn on a basal, slender, to 8" [20 cm] long, wiry inflorescence arising from a mature pseudobulb, with 6 to 8, foul-smelling flowers radiating from the apex in an umbel.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum clavigerum [Fitz.] F. Mueller 1884; Bulbophyllum kenejianum Schltr. 1913; Bulbophyllum layardii [F. Meul. & Krnzl.]J.J.Sm. 1912; Bulbophyllum longiflorum Thouars 1822; Bulbophyllum trisetum Ames 1912; Cirrhopetalum africanum Schlechter 1915; Cirrhopetalum clavigerum Fitz. 1883; Cirrhopetalum kenejianum Schlechter 1915; Cirrhopetalum layardii F. Meuller & Krnzl. 1894; Cirrhopetalum longiflorum [Thou.]Schlechter 1915; Cirrhopetalum thomasinii Lindley ex Josst 1851; Cirrhopetalum thouarsii Lindley 1824; Cirrhopetalum thouarsii var. concolor Rolfe 1892; Cirrhopetalum trisetum (Ames) Garay, Hamer & Siegerist 1994; Cymbidium umbellatum [Forst.] Spreng. 1815; Epidendrum umbellatum Forst. 1786; Inobulbum layardii (F.Muell. & Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1998 ; Phyllorchis clavigera [Fitz.] Ktze. 1891; Phyllorchis longiflora Kuntze 1891; Phyllorchis thouarsii [Lindl.]Ktze 1891; Phyllorchis umbellata [Forst.]Ktze. 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912[1985] as Bulbophyllum kenejianum; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfaden 1973/1987; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as B longiflorum; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as B longiflorum; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995 as B longiflorum; The Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996 as B longiflorum; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 as B longiflorum; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 as B trisetum; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 1 Tanaka 2003 incorrect; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as C clavigerum

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