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Orchid Species: Bulbophyllum delitescens
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Bulbophyllum delitescens is an orchid species identified by Hance in 1876.
ORIGIN: Found in Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Xizang and Yunnan provinces of China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Thailand and India in primary montane forests on tree trunks or on shady rocks along streams at elevations of 800 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, cold to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a branched rhizome giving rise to ovoid to subcylindrical pseudobulbs spaced about 1.2 to 4.4 [3 to 11 cm] between each and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, oblong, elliptic to obovate-oblong, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a erect to horizontal, from the rhizome just below the pseudobulb, 4 to 10 2/5 + [10 to 26 cm+] long, few [2 to 4] flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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