Bulbophyllum muscicola

Bulbophyllum muscicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Genus:	Bulbophyllum
Species:	B. muscicola
Binomial name
Bulbophyllum muscicola Rchb.f. [1]

Common Name The Moss-Growing Bulbophyllum

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]

Found at elevations up to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte occuring in the eastern Himalayas, Assam and Nepal where it has fat, flattened, ovate psuedobulbs with a single, elliptical leaf that is acute at the base and obtuse at the apex and blooms in the fall on a slender, basal 2 3/8" [6 cm] long inflorescence with an apical umbel of 3 to 10 flowers held below or just above the leaf.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum hookeri [Duthie]J.J.Sm. 1912; Bulbophyllum wallichii (Lindl.) Merr. & F.P.Metcalf 1945; Cirrhopetalum hookeri Duthie 1902; Cirrhopetalum wallichii Lindl. 1830

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Cirrhopetalum wallichii drawing fide; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as Cirrhopetalum hookeri drawing ok; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Cirrhopetalum hookeri; Notes on Cirrhopetalum Seidenfaden 1973 as B hookeri drawing good; Orchids of Northwest Himalaya Deva & Naithani 1986 as B hookeri drawing fide; Indian Orchids Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 as B hookeri drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 44 No 4 1980 as Cirrhopetalum wallichii photo fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 40 Bulbophyllinae 1983 as Cirrhopetalum wallichii photo fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991 as B hookeri; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 as Cirrhopetalum wallichii photo hmm;

CITIES category : Appendix II

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