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Bulbophyllum bonaccordense

A small epiphytic Bulbophyllum from southern India, first described in 1989 as Trias bonaccordensis from Bonaccord in the southern Western Ghats and moved to Bulbophyllum in 2014. Its creamy yellow flowers are spotted all over with crimson. It is closely related to B. stocksii, and hardly anything has been published about its habitat or care.

Bulbophyllum bonaccordense
Photo: Shyamal L., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Warm-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Humid airBand in Plantistry
Light Dappled lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

No habitat notes were available to us beyond its type locality at Bonaccord, a site in the Agasthyamalai hills of the southern Western Ghats in Kerala. Trias-type Bulbophyllum in the Western Ghats generally grow as small epiphytes on branches in evergreen and semi-evergreen forest, with bright, broken light and plenty of air.

No elevation is recorded for it in the sources we could reach. The Bonaccord area lies roughly in the middle elevations of the Agasthyamalai hills, so assume mid-elevation evergreen forest.

India (southern Western Ghats, Kerala)

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, unmodified.