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Dipodium khasyanum is an orchid species identified by Griff. in 1851. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum roseopictum.
ORIGIN: This species is from Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand and Yunnan China in forests on trees and along valleys on rocks at elevations of 900 to 2700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized epiphyte and sometimes lithophyte and is grown cool to cold, shady and with regular year round watering and is best mounted on tree fern. The orchid has a branching rhizome with .6 to 1.25 [1.5 to 3.2 cm] between each obpyriform to flask shaped, apically narrowing, broad based pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, linear-oblong, obliquely emarginate, strongly keeled beneath, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that will bloom in the summer and fall on a basal, erect, 2 [5 cm] long, thin, several [1 to 8] flowered inflorescence with tubular, subacute basal sheaths and lanceolate, acute floral bracts the nodding flowers facing in all directions and held at leaf length.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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