Bulbophyllum sphaericum
| Bulbophyllum sphaericum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Genus: | Bulbophyllum |
| Species: | B. sphaericum
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| Binomial name | |
| Bulbophyllum sphaericum Z. H. Tsi & H. Li
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Bulbophyllum sphaericum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. It is found in Sichuan and Yunnan, providence of China. The Bulbophyllum sphaericum is a warm to cool growing epiphyte with a creeping, branching rhizome with .4" [1 cm] between each globose pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, thickly leathery, elliptic-oblong, abaxially purplish red, adaxially pale green, margin slightly recurved, retuse apically, sessile base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, basal from the pseudobulb, much longer than the leaf, 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence holding the flowers in an apical umbel.
References
[edit]- The Bulbophyllum-Checklist
- The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia
- The Spherical Bulbophyllum
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