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Phyllorkis xylophylla is an orchid species identified by (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum xylophyllum.
ORIGIN: Found in Bhutan, Assam, India, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in lowland humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests on mossy branches along ridge tops around elevations of 410 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with minute, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, stiff, elliptic to broadly elliptic, petiolate leaf that blooms in the spring and summer with a from the rhizome, erect, 2 [5 cm] long inflorescence with 2 basal acuminate bracts and another towards the middle and carrying an apical cluster of a few flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/6 inches [3 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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