Rhytionanthos plumatus [Ames] Garay, Hamer & Siegrist 1994 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.

Plant and FlowersPhoto courtesy of Marius Wasbauer

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Common Name The Feathery Rhytionanthus

Flower Size 3 3/4" vertically [9cm]

Found in Sumatra and the Philippines at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with 3/4 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] between each, obliquely ovoid, quadrangular with concave sides pseudobulbs and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, narrowing into the very short petiolate base leaf that blooms on an ascending, slender, terete, 4" [10 cm] long, apically thicker, 4 flowered, umbelliform inflorescence that is held at the leaf height and should be grown in a pot or basket with fast draining medium and partial shade.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum jacobsonii J.J. Sm. 1935; Bulbophyllum plumatum Ames 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as B plumatum; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 1 2003 photo as Bulbophyllum plumatum; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 4 2003 photo as Bulbophyllum plumatum; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 as B plumatum

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