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Phyllorkis umbellata is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Kuntze in 1891. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum umbellatum.
ORIGIN: Found in the western Himalayas, eastern Himalayas, Assam, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, southern China and Vietnam in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests on mossy branches in old, dwarf, gnarled trees at elevations of 1000 to 2200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with .4 to .8 between each ovoid to broadly conical, rugose pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a fibrous sheath and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, emarginate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, to 8 [20 cm] long, basal, few [5 to 8] flowered inflorescence that is just shorter than the leaf and has an apical umbel of foul smelling flowers occurring in the spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 to 1 1/2 Long inches [2.5 to 3.75 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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