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Bulbophyllum guttulatum is a species of Bulbophyllum found in Asia.
Description
Plant blooms from summer to fall with several 2 cm flowers.
Distribution
Plants are found on western Himalayas, Assam, Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar and Vietnam at elevations of 1000 to 2600 meters
Culture
Keep plant in intermediate to warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted.
Rhizome creeping, ca. 3 mm in diam. Pseudobulbs ca. 1 cm apart from each other, ovoid-conic or narrowly ovoid, 2-2.5 cm, 7-10 mm in diam., ribbed, with a terminal leaf. Petiole 1-2 cm; leaf blade elliptic-oblong, 7-14 × ca. 3 cm, leathery, base contracted into petiole, apex obtuse-rounded. Scape from base of pseudobulb, erect, 10-15 cm, slender; umbel often 2- or 3-flowered; peduncle ca. 1 mm in diam., sparsely with 2 or 3 tubular sheaths; floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, apex acuminate. Pedicel and ovary ca. 2.5 mm. Flowers yellow, spotted with red. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, concave, 8-10 × 6-7 mm, apex subtruncate and mucronulate; lateral sepals obliquely ovate-lanceolate, 10-11 × ca. 6 mm, ± narrowed and twisted near base, their lower margin connate to each other toward base, apex obtuse. Petals broadly ovate-triangular, ca. 4.5 × 4 mm, base ca. 1/3 width adnate to column foot, margin entire, apex mucronate; lip recurved, subovate in outline, ca. 5 × 3.4 mm, adaxially with 3 longitudinal keels, base dilated and attached to end of column foot, immobile, apex emarginate. Column ca. 3 mm, with triangular, acute wings along lower margins; foot ca. 5 mm, with free part ca. 2 mm, upcurved; stelidia filiform, ca. 2.8 mm; anther cap subglobose, glabrous. Fl. Aug.
Tree trunks in broad-leaved forests; 800-1800 m. SE Xizang [Bhutan, NE India, Nepal, Vietnam].
CITIES category : Appendix II
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