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Pale umbrella orchid
Bulbophyllum longiflorum

About
Bulbophyllum longiflorum, commonly known as the pale umbrella orchid, is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid. It has a creeping rhizome, widely spaced, dark green pseudobulbs with a single large, fleshy leaf, and flowers spreading in a semicircular umbel, resembling one-half of an umbrella. The flowers are canoe-shaped, greenish cream-coloured to yellowish with purple dots. It has a wide distribution and is found in parts of Africa, on islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and northern Australia.
- Family
- Orchidaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Bulbophyllum longiflorum
- Slug
- bulbophyllum-longiflorum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Bulbophyllum
- Species
- longiflorum
- Wikidata QID
- Q4994999
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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