Bulbophyllum plumatum
A small creeping Bulbophyllum described by Ames from Mindanao, with 'plumatum' referring to the feathery parts of its flower. It has single-leaved, four-angled pseudobulbs spaced 2–3 cm apart and short spikes of clustered flowers. Little has been published about how it grows in the wild, so these conditions are drawn from its few records and from other Malesian montane Bulbophyllum.
Where it grows wild
Wikipedia describes it as an epiphyte of swamp forest at 1,000–1,500 m. It has obliquely ovoid, quadrangular pseudobulbs 2–3 cm apart on a creeping rhizome, one leaf per pseudobulb, and flowering stems about 10 cm long carrying clustered flowers. No herbarium label with habitat detail was found.
Wikipedia gives 1,000–1,500 m. That places it in submontane forest with warm days and cool nights rather than hot lowland. None of the GBIF records carry an elevation.
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