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Orchid Species: Bulbophyllum affine

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Bulbophyllum affine is an orchid species identified by Wall. ex Lindl. in 1830.
Genus
Bulbophyllum (Bulb.)
Grex
affine
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Wall. ex Lindl.
Year
1830
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ORIGIN: This miniature to small sized, cool to warm growing, unifoliate epiphyte comes from the western Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Ryukyus Islands in evergreen lowland forests at elevations of 100 to 1800 meters or in Hong Kong.

DESCRIPTION: Lithophyte on rocks at elevations around 200 meters with 2.4 to 2.8 [6 to 7 cm] between each thin, slightly basally thickened, elongate pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong, obtuse, narrowing below into the conduplicate petiolate base leaf and blooms on a basal, slender, to 2 3/4 [7 cm] long, solitary flowered inflorescence that is shorter than the leaves, .

FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/5 inch [3 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Bulbophyllum Bulb kusukusense 1914 Hayata
Add+ Sarcopodium Spd affine 1850 (Wall. ex Lindl.) Lindl. & Paxton
Add+ Phyllorkis Phyllorkis affinis 1891 (Wall. ex Lindl.) Kuntze
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Bulb. affine 'Orchid Society of the Royal Botanical Gardens' (2014) Bulb. affine 'Scott Roberts' (2003) Bulb. affine 'North Bay' (1996) Bulb. affine 'Emly' (1991) Bulb. kusukusense 'Twin Oaks' (1975)
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