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Orchid Species: Bulbophyllum hirtum

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Bulbophyllum hirtum is an orchid species identified by (Sm.) Lindl. ex Wall. in 1829.
Genus
Bulbophyllum (Bulb.)
Grex
hirtum
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Sm.) Lindl. ex Wall.
Year
1829
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ORIGIN: Found in south Yunnan Province of China, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Sikkim, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests on mossy branches of old dwarf, gnarled trees and in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands as an uncommon, creeping, small sized, warm to cold growing bifoliate epiphyte at elevations of 800 to 2700 meters on limestone outcroppings.

DESCRIPTION: An uncommon, creeping, small sized, warm to cold growing bifoliate epiphyte at elevations of 800 to 2700 meters on limestone outcroppings with crowded, globose to ovoid-cylindric pseudobulbs carrying two apical, deciduous, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, flaccid, subacute, petiolate base leaves and blooms after it drops the deciduous leaves in the late summer on a basal, erect to arcuate then pendant, 10 [25 cm] long, densely many flowered, racemose, glandular pubescent inflorescence with distant, glabrous, lanceoate, acute sheaths and broadly ovate floral bracts and carrying small, hairy, strongly fragrant [cinnamon] flowers held way above the leaves. This species needs a short dry season before it will bloom properly.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/4 inch [6 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb kerrii 1906 Rolfe
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb suave 1851 Griff.
Add+ Stelis Ste hirta 1816 Sm. in A.Rees
Add+ Tribrachia Tribrachia hirta 1826 (Sm.) Lindl.
Add+ Phyllorkis Phyllorkis hirta 1891 (Sm.) Kuntze
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Bulb. hirtum 'Chihon' (2007) Bulb. kerrii 'Wappingers Falls' (1998) Bulb. hirtum 'Emly' (1990)
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