Rhytionanthos spathulatus (Rolfe ex E.W.Cooper) L.A.Garay, F.Hamer & E.S.Siegerist 1994 Photos courtesy of © Linda Karlbom

Another Flower Photos courtesy of Oak Hill Gardens and Their Website

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

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Common Name The Sheathed Rhytionanthos

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]

Found as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte in the Assam, eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, Myanamar, Laos and Vietnam at elevations around 1000 meters in light shade with a woody rhizome with 2.4" to 3.6" [6 cm to 9 cm]between each cylindric-ovate, narrow, suberect to oblique pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, coriaaceous, oblong-elliptical, obtuse to subacute, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the spring on a basal, stout, 3/4" [2 cm] long inflorescence with broadly tubular, imbricate sheaths and oblong-ovate to lanceolate, acute floral bracts all carrying the few, [4+ in an umbel], ephemeral flowers, and needs to be mounted to accomodate the sprawling growth habit.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum spathulatum (Rolfe ex E. Cooper) Seidenf. 1970; *Cirrhopetalum spathulatum Rolfe ex E.Cooper 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 as Bulbophyllum spathulatum

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