samedi 20 octobre 2012

bulbophyllum ovalifolium




October 20, 2012
Partial shade, cool to intermediary, Spring to fall
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, lesser Sunda Islands and Sulawesi at elevations of 900 to 2000 meters where it is common in montane forests as a miniature, cool to warm growing epiphyte with oblong, flattened pseudobulbs with raised and diverging ends carrying a single, apical, elliptic, apically blunt leaf which gradually narrows into a short petiole and blooms on a 1 1/2" to 2 1/2"[3.75 to 6 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence holding the flower above the leaf occurrng in spring through fall