Botanical name: Bulbophyllum corallinum    Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)

Coral Bulb-Leaf Orchid is a miniature sized, tree-dwelling orchid with clustered, elongate-elliptic to ovate, 4 angled pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, narrowly elliptic, blunt leaf. The plant blooms in the late spring through early fall on many, very short, several flowered inflorescence held very close to the pseudobulb base. Flowers are brownish red, about 3 mm. Sepals are free, thickly textured; dorsal sepal ovate-lanceshaped, 2.2-6 x about 1 mm, tip tapering; lateral sepals obliquely ovate-triangular or sickle shaped-lanceshaped, 2.3-7 x about 1 mm, base adnate to column foot forming a mentum, margins strongly incurved above middle, tip long tapering. Petals are oblong, 1.2-1.8 x 0.5-0.8 mm, membranous, margins irregularly finely toothed, tip pointed; lip hooked-recurved, about 1.3 x 0.3 mm, fleshy. Coral Bulb-Leaf Orchid is is found in NE India, China to Indo-China, at altitudes of 1100-1600 m.

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