Bulbophyllum lindleyanum

 Bulbophyllum lindleyanum

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) :
    Bulbophyllum lindleyanum a gr uk 
  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

 

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