Bulbophyllum rigidum
A small epiphytic Bulbophyllum from the eastern Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam), growing in evergreen forest at about 1,000–2,000 m. It carries single leaves on a creeping rhizome and in summer produces stiff, 10–20 cm spikes of 7–20 tiny, non-resupinate flowers arranged in a spiral. It is an intermediate to cool grower with a wet monsoon summer and a cool, dry winter.
Where it grows wild
Epiphytic in evergreen temperate forest of the eastern Himalaya. Early records come from the government cinchona plantations of Sikkim at about 1,830 m. The rhizome is covered in fibrous sheaths, which suits a moss-covered branch.
About 1,000–2,000 m according to IOSPE; dated records sit at about 1,150 and 1,830 m.
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