Botanical name: Bulbophyllum bifurcatoflorens    Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Sunipia andersonii, Ione bifurcatoflorens, Ione flavescens

Narrow-Petal Bulb-Leaf Orchid is a tree-dwelling orchid with rhizome creeping, about 1.5 mm in diameter. Pseudobulbs are 1-4 cm apart on rhizome, ovoid, 1-1.5 cm, 3-10 mm in diameter, 1-leaved at tip. Leaf is nearly stalkless; blade narrowly oblong, 5-10 x 0.7-1 cm, leathery, base wedge-shaped, tip blunt and flat at tip. Flowers are 1.3 cm across, pale yellow or yellowish green, with deep yellow lip. Sepals are free, similar, ovate-lanceshaped, 7-10 x 3-5 mm, tip pointed and recurved. Petals are narrowly ovate-lanceshaped, 5-6 x 2-2.5 mm, abruptly contracted above middle and cylindric-thickened, tip blunt. Lip is ovate, 5-6 x about 2.5 mm. Flowering stem is about 3 cm; raceme few flowered; floral bracts ovate-lanceshaped, about 10 x 5 mm. Flower-stalk and ovary about 1 cm. Narrow-Petal Bulb-Leaf Orchid is found growing on tree trunks in forests at altitudes of 700-1800 m, in Bhutan, NE India, Myanmar, N Thailand, N Vietnam, Yunnan. Flowering: March-April.

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