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Orchid Species: Bulbophyllum cleistogamum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Bulbophyllum cleistogamum is an orchid species identified by Ridl. in 1896.
ORIGIN: Found in peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and the Luzon province of the Philippines in podosol forests on rocks and trunks of trees at elevations of 400 to 500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and the Luzon province of the Philippines in podosol forests on rocks and trunks of trees at elevations of 400 to 500 meters and is a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with a rhizome with to 1 [2.5 cm] between each, cylindric, conical, curved pseudobulb with a single, apical, leathery, erect, dark green, oblong to oblong-elliptic, gradually narrowing below into the channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a basal, erect, terete, 8 to 24 [20 to 60 cm +] long, single flowered inflorescence with several tubular sheaths and triangular floral bracts that holds the wide opening, odor-less, flower above the leaves.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 3/4 inch [4.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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