Bulbophyllum plumosum

 Bulbophyllum plumosum Cogn., Fl. Bras. (Martius) 3(5): 614, t. 118, fig. 1 (1902).

Bulbophyllum plumosum Cogn., Photo by Daniel Freitas

its native range is Brazil.

Latin Name: 

Bulbophyllum plumosum Cogn.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Bulbophyllum fractiflexum Pabst

Bulbophyllum lundianum Rchb.f. & Warm.

Bulbophyllum pabstii Garay

Didactyle plumosa Barb.Rodr.

Phyllorkis lundiana (Rchb.f. & Warm.) Kuntze

English Name:

The Feathery Bulbophyllum.

Description: 

With clustered, ovoid to sub rounded pseudobulbs carrying a sdingle apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, acute, rounded into the base leaf that blooms on a basal, erect, to 15 cm long, nutant, few flowered inflorescence.

Distribution:

Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central.

Ecological:

As a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

1.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in warm temperatures. Keep moist in summer seasons and do not allow mix to dry, in winter keep the mix slight dry and reduce watering. Keep good air movement to avoid fungal growth. Keep plants in shade. Pot plants in sphagnum moss, fine bark, or mounted.

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/37968-2

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:37968-2

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/bulbplumosum.htm. 

- https://orchids.fandom.com