Bulbophyllum lepidum
A creeping epiphytic Bulbophyllum (section Cirrhopetalum) from Southeast Asia, with small conical single-leaved pseudobulbs along a woody rhizome and fan-shaped umbels of about 7–13 flowers. The flowers are purple to red, fading to yellow or beige at the tips of the long lateral sepals. It grows on tree trunks and mossy rocks in lowland to lower-montane forests, often near streams, and is a warm-growing, easy mount or basket plant.
Where it grows wild
It grows as an epiphyte on tree trunks, palms and at tree bases, and sometimes on mossy rocks, in deciduous and evergreen forest. Labels mention mixed deciduous dipterocarp forest along streams, shaded streamsides, secondary forest, seasonally flooded lowland swamp forest and the edge of the mangrove zone.
Wikipedia gives 300–1100 m, but many herbarium and observation records are from near sea level (median of dated records about 435 m, lowest 10 m).
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