Bulbophyllum mirabile
Bulbophyllum mirabile is a little-known epiphytic orchid from Borneo, described by Hallier around 1900 from plants grown at the Bogor Botanic Garden in Java, and placed in section Hirtula. It is warm-growing and should be treated like other lowland Bornean Bulbophyllum: shaded, humid and never dry. Almost nothing about its wild habitat has been published.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte, presumably of lowland to hill rainforest. The GBIF records are mostly early 1900s herbarium sheets from plants cultivated at Bogor, plus a 2006 observation from Miri Division in Sarawak. None gives host, height or forest type.
No elevations are recorded. That it grew well in the lowland Bogor garden (about 260 m) and was seen in the Miri area suggests a warm lowland or hill-forest plant, probably below about 1,000 m.
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