Bulbophyllum ovalifolium Lindl.

Species

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Characteristics

Plants small. Rhizome creeping. Pseudobulbs contiguous, nearly flattened globose or ellipsoid, 4-10 × 5-8 mm, with a terminal leaf. Leaf subsessile or shortly petiolate; blade elliptic, 10-30 × 4.5-10 mm, leathery, base contracted, apex obtuse. Scapes from base of pseudobulb, erect, 32-60 mm, terminating in a solitary flower; peduncle filiform, 10-30 mm; floral bracts cupular, ca. 2 mm, apex acute. Pedicel and ovary 15-23 mm. Flowers cream-colored or yellow to red, usually with darker veins; lip yellow, orange, or red. Dorsal sepal elliptic, 3.8-6.8 × 1.5-3 mm, apex acute-apiculate, margins glabrous to finely erose to ciliolate distally; lateral sepals elliptic, 4.5-12 × 2-8 mm, ± glabrous, margins entire, apex acute to acuminate. Petals (ob-)ovate-oblong, 1-1.8 × 0.7-1 mm, obtuse, margins entire; lip elliptic to ovate, 1.8-3.5 × 1.2-2.5 mm, fleshy, proximally concave because of upturned margins, margins then folding downward, rounded, adaxial surface distally papillose to verrucose toward margins. Column 1-1.8 mm; stelidia narrowly triangular to subulate, 0.5-1 mm, lower margin with a deltoid, obtuse tooth; foot ca. 1.5 mm, with free part ca. 1 mm; anther cap subglobose, papillose. Fl. May.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support epiphyte
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Images

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Distribution

Bulbophyllum ovalifolium world distribution map, present in China and Thailand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:619732-1
WFO ID wfo-0000573809
COL ID 5X3T7
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Synonyms

Phyllorkis hirsuta Phyllorkis ovalifolia Phyllorkis tenella Phyllorkis parvula Bulbophyllum diploncos Bulbophyllum parvulum Bulbophyllum amblyoglossum Bulbophyllum hirsutum Bulbophyllum ovalifolium Bulbophyllum ovatilabellum Bulbophyllum tenellum Bulbophyllum tinea Bulbophyllum xylocarpi Diphyes hirsuta Diphyes tenella Diphyes ovalifolia Diphyes pusilla Phyllorchis ovalifolia Phyllorchis hirsuta Phyllorchis parvula Phyllorchis tenella Bulbophyllum ariel