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Orchid Species: Bulbophyllum longibrachiatum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Bulbophyllum longibrachiatum is an orchid species identified by Z.H.Tsi in 1981.
ORIGIN: Found in southeastern China and Vietnam in forests on tree trunks at elevations of 540 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with a branched rhizome giving rise to well spaced, erect, narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic, large, thickly leathery, contracted below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, erect, 6 to 11.2 [15 to 28 cm] long, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence holding the flowers in an umbel.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [8 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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