Category: Builbophyllum

This very large, hot to warm-growing epiphyte is found in New Guinea’s rainforests at elevations of 100–600 meters. It has ovoid to elliptic pseudobulbs, each carrying a single, erect, elliptic leaf with a short petiole. Blooming in late winter and early spring, it produces a slender, 23 cm inflorescence that arches downward, bearing an umbel… Continue reading Bulbophyllum graveolens

This miniature, hot-growing epiphyte is found from Thailand to Australia and the Pacific islands at elevations up to 150 meters. It has small, clustered ovoid pseudobulbs, each with a single elliptic leaf. Blooming from spring to summer, it produces a tall, 15–30 cm purple, wiry inflorescence with 6–10 fragrant flowers held above the leaf.

This mini-miniature, cool-growing epiphyte is found in Yunnan, China, and Vietnam at elevations of 1450–1500 meters. It has clustered, multi-angled, olive-green pseudobulbs spaced 3 cm apart, each carrying a single, fleshy, broadly oblong-elliptic to ovate leaf. Blooming in spring, it produces a short, 2 cm long basal inflorescence with a small umbel of fragrant flowers.

This small, cool to cold growing epiphyte is found in southern Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and India at around 2000 meters. It has garlic clove-like pseudobulbs with a single, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, petiolate leaf. Blooming in spring, it produces a basal, 8 cm long, umbellate inflorescence with several flowers held at mid-leaf.

This miniature to small, hot to warm growing epiphyte is found in Borneo’s lower montane and podosol forests at 800 to 1500 meters. It has elliptic, compressed pseudobulbs with a single, thick, ovate, dark green, petiolate leaf. Blooming in spring and fall, it produces a short, 1 cm long, single-flowered inflorescence with tubular floral bracts.… Continue reading Bulbophyllum flavofimbriatum

This miniature, hot to warm growing epiphyte is found in Malaysia, Borneo, and Sumatra in swamp forests on mature mangrove trees at elevations up to 1000 meters. It has slender, cylindrical pseudobulbs spaced 1.6 to 3.1 inches apart, ringed with stiff bristles, and carries a single, gradually tapered leaf with a short petiole. Blooming from… Continue reading Bulbophyllum fibrosum

This small, hot to warm growing epiphyte is found in Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Philippines at elevations up to 1000 meters. It has olive-green, four-angled pseudobulbs spaced 2 to 3 cm apart, each carrying a single oblong-elliptic leaf with a petiolate base. Blooming in summer and fall, it produces a 17 to 19… Continue reading Bulbophyllum fascinator

This small to medium-sized epiphyte or terrestrial orchid is found in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, and Sumatra at elevations of 900 to 2500 meters. It grows in mossy forests with globose pseudobulbs and tough, lanceolate-oblong leaves that narrow into a petiolate base. Blooming from spring to fall, it produces a straight, 30 cm long inflorescence with… Continue reading Bulbophyllum farinulentum

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This small, cool to warm growing epiphyte is found in Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra. It has a creeping rhizome with 2.5 cm spaced, oblong-ovoid, dull green pseudobulbs, each bearing a single, erect, narrowly lanceolate, fleshy leaf. Blooming in late fall to early winter, it produces a pale green, brown-red spotted, single-flowered inflorescence from both… Continue reading Bulbophyllum elevatopunctatum