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Rhytionanthos spathulatum is an orchid species identified by (Rolfe ex E.W.Cooper) Garay in 1994. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Bulbophyllum spathulatum.
ORIGIN: Found in tropical valleys at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte in the Assam, eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam in light shade with a woody rhizome with 2.4 to 3.6 [6 cm to 9 cm] between each cylindric-ovate, narrow, suberect to oblique pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, oblong-elliptical, obtuse to subacute, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the spring on a basal, stout, 3/4 [2 cm] long inflorescence with broadly tubular, imbricate sheaths and oblong-ovate to lanceolate, acute floral bracts all carrying the few, ephemeral flowers held in an umbel.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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