Bulbophyllum lindleyanum photo C. Solimbergo |
taxonomy | described by | Griffit, William |
published in | Notulae ad Plantas Asiaticas 3 : 287 . 1851 | |
Family | Orchdaceae | |
Subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
Tribe | Malaxideae | |
Subtribe | Dendrobiinae | |
Genus | Bullbophyllum Thouras 1822 | |
metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
(K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
native of | origin | there is not much information - Siegeris in 2001, describes it from Thailand and India - |
Grant in 1895, in the tropical forests of Burma (from Tenasserim to the Mergui Archipelago, at low altitude), | ||
Seidenfaden in 1979 in the SE of Thailand (Kopan, Muang Lan, Ranong) | ||
altitude | - - | |
habitat | climate informations from Island of Mergui (Mergui Arcipelago, Tanintharyi, Burma) | |
Köppen climate classification : Am, tropical monsoon climate (a dry season and a wet season very rainy) | ||
the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 100 m / 330 ft) : | ||
photoperiod | in Mergui this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 49 m' to 11 h 11m' | |
life form | epiphyte | |
brightness | partial shade | |
inflorescence | lenght | 12 - 16 cm (4.8 - 6.4"), basal |
flowers | 10 - 16 | |
size | single flower 1 L 1 cm (0.4 L 0.4") - inflorescence 8 L 2 cm (3.2 L 0.8") | |
duration | inflorescence ≈ 80 days | |
time | to bloom from birth ≈ 75 days | |
CITES | appendix | II |