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Orchid Species: Bulbophyllum occultum

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Bulbophyllum occultum is an orchid species identified by Thouars in 1822.
Genus
Bulbophyllum (Bulb.)
Grex
occultum
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Thouars
Year
1822
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ORIGIN: Found in the humid evergreen coastal and lowland forests of Madagascar and the Mascarenes at elevations around sea-level to 1500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Highly variable, small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 1 to 1 1/4 [2.5 to 3 cm] between each oval, tetragonal-winged yellowish pseudobulb enveloped in youth by 5 unequally sized, sheaths and carrying a 2 apical, thick, very flat oblong leaves that are slightly attenuate towards the base that blooms in the spring through fall on a 6 to 10 [15 to 25 cm] long, clad apically with several loose, evasive sheaths and a recurved rhachis widening into 3 rows of brownish yellow bracts each one completly cover the several flowers at the apice of the inflorescence.

FLOWER SIZE: 5/8 inch [1.6 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dendrochilum Ddc occultum 1830 (Thouars) Lindl.
Add+ Phyllorkis Phyllorkis cryptophylis 1822 Thouars
Add+ Phyllorkis Phyllorkis occulta 1891 (Thouars) Kuntze
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Bulb. occultum 'Maku'u' (2014)
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