Nephelaphyllum tenuiflorum Blume 1825

Plant and Flower in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photos by © David Kuehn

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Plant Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©

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Common Name The Delicately Flowered Nephelaphyllum

Flower Size 3/4" [1.25 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra and Vietnam in broadleafed, evergreen, humid primary forests in soils dampened by mists and splash along steep watercourses as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters that has variegated, fleshy leaves and blooms on an erect, terminal, 6" [15 cm] long, loosely several [5 to 8] flowered, racemose inflorescence occuring in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Nephelaphyllum cristatum Gagnep. 1932; Nephelaphyllum cristigerum Aver. 1988

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002

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