Cirrhopetalum makoyanum Rchb.f 1879 SECTION Cirrhopetalum Lindley 1824

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Common Name Makoy's Cirrhopetalum or Daisy Orchid [provider of the first specimen for Reichenbach late 1800's]

Flower Size 1 1/2" Long [3.75 cm]

The daisy orchid, blooms variable all year but most often in the winter, a miniature to small sized, warm to hot growing, unifoliate epiphyte that is an easy grower from Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and the Philippines in lowland forests at elevations up to 300 meters that has 3/4" [2 cm] between each ovate, ridged with age pseudobulb, carrying a single, erect, narrowly ovoid, leaf that narrows below into a petiole and blooms on a basal, slender, 8" [20 cm] long, purple, several [5 to 12] flowered inflorescence that has an apical umbel of fragrant flowers held just beyond the leaf.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum makoyanum [Rchb.f]Ridley 1879

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as B makoyanum; Orchid Australia Vol 12 No 1 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 10 2001 photo; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfadden 1973 as B makoyanum; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 1999; A to Z of SE ASian Orchids O'Byrne 2001 as B makoyanum; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 as B makoyanum; Orchids of Malaya Holttum 1957; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987 as B makoyanum; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 4 2000 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 as B makoyanum; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 4 2005 photo;

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