DISTRIBUTIONEDITOR'S NOTE:
This species was previously not known to be located in the Philippines. In January 2013, one of the editors of this website went on a trek in the mountains of Samar, Philippines, and found this plant in the picture growing in the forest. The pictures found below are in situ shots of the plant, previously unidentified. After sending the picture for identification, despite its very yellow color, it was identified as Bulbophyllum ovalifolium. The species is known to have occurrence records in these countries.
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SYNONYMSHomotypic Synonyms:
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DESCRIPTION (FROM FLORA OF CHINA)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.
Tree trunks in forests; ca. 2400 m. ---FOC Vol. 25 Page 415 |