(Created page with 'thumb|''Bulbophyllum spathulatum'' (not my photo) '''Common Name:''' The Sheathed Bulbophyllum<br /> '''Scented:''' no<br /> '''Light Requi…')
 
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[[File:Bulbophyllum_spathulatum.jpg|thumb|''Bulbophyllum spathulatum'' (not my photo)]]


'''Common Name:''' The Sheathed Bulbophyllum<br />
'''Scented:''' no<br />
'''Light Requirements:''' partial shade<br />
'''Temperature Requirements:''' cool to intermediate<br />
'''Blooms:''' spring<br />
'''Flower Size:''' 1.5cm<br />
'''Synonyms:''' *''Cirrhopetalum spathulatum'' Rolfe ex E.Cooper 1929; ''Rhytionanthos spathulatus'' (Rolfe ex E.W.Cooper) L.A.Garay, F.Hamer & E.S.Siegerist 1994
Found as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte in the Assam, eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, Myanamar, Laos and Vietnam at elevations around 1000 meters in light shade with a woody rhizome with 6cm to 9cm between each cylindric-ovate, narrow, suberect to oblique pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, oblong-elliptical, obtuse to subacute, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the spring on a basal, stout, 2cm long inflorescence with broadly tubular, imbricate sheaths and oblong-ovate to lanceolate, acute floral bracts all carrying the few, 4+ in an umbel, ephemeral flowers, and needs to be mounted to accommodate the sprawling growth habit.
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