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Bulbophyllum dyphoniae is an orchid species identified by Tixier in 1968. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum dayanum.
ORIGIN: Found in India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sea-level to 700 to 1300 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, warm to cool growing, unifoliate epihyte of wet, shadier, cooler areas with a creeping rhizome, globose to ovoid, channeled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong, coriaceous leaf that is deep green above and purple below that blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, very short, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence with semi-nodding, foul smelling flowers held below the leaves next to the rhizome. This plant needs water lots of it as well as deep shade, in a wood basket with bark and covered with sphagnum moss.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 inches [2 to 3 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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