Rhytionanthos aemulus [W.W.Sm.] Garay, Hamer & Siegrist 1994 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids. Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Bob Fallon Copyright © , and the Dr Leslie Garay Archives

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Common Name The Similar-looking Rhytionanthus

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

Found in China, Burma, Thailand, Laos and India at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to warm growing, unifoliate epiphyte with garlic clove-like pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, petiolate leaf that blooms in the winter on a basal, 3 1/4" [8 cm] long, several flowered, umbellate inflorescence holding the flowers at mid-leaf.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum forestii Seidenf. 1974; *Cirrhopetalum aemulum W.W. Sm. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997 as Bulbophyllum forestii; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 10 2001 photo as Bulbophyllum aemulum; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 as Bulbophyllum forestii; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 4 2005 photo;

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