Bryobium hyacinthoides (Blume) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb, 2005

Bryobium hyacinthoides (Blume) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb,

Common name : The Hyacinth-like Bryobium

Characteristic : Pseudobulben short cylindrical-fusiform, up to 10 cm, bearing at top 2 leaves, lanceolate, narrow, pointed, at the bottom of stalk-like narrowed to c. 25 cm long. Clustered moderately loose, much flowers,up to 20 cm long, fine and thin hair. Flowers white, about 1 cm in size, sepals and petal blunt, oblong. Lip three-lobed, with two hairy thickenings and beaten down the anterior lobe. Anther golden. bloom time:
Die Orchideen, R. Schelecther : 283 (1915)

Type : 
Mount Salak, West Java. Flower season in May.

Syntipe :
Rejang Lebong regency, Bengkulu. Flowering 02 February 2013.


Scent :
With hyacinth like clusters of white flowers that smells like spoiled lasagna if you hold it close to the nose. Unpleasant scente  A few my friend say odor like sperm scent or Bayclean ( a whitening  trademark for laundry).


Alttitude reported in wild :
c. 500 - 1700 m. Whole provinces in Sumatra.


Homotypic Synonyms:
Dendrolirium hyacinthoides Blume, Bijdr.: 346 (1825).
Eria hyacinthoides (Blume) Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 66 (1830).
Pinalia hyacinthoides (Blume) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 678 (1891).
Bryobium hyacinthoides (Blume) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb, Orchid Rev. 113: 272 (2005).

Bryobium hyacinthoides (Blume) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb,

Bryobium hyacinthoides (Blume) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb,

Bryobium hyacinthoides (Blume) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb,

Bryobium hyacinthoides (Blume) Y.P.Ng & P.J.Cribb,

Illustration
Curtis's botanical magazine. v.134 [ser.4:v.4] : tab. 8229(1908)

Left as Eria cimbifolia, Right as Eria hyacinthoides

Basionym
Dendrolirium hyacinthoides Blume, Bijdr.: 346 (1825).

Drawlines
Die Orchideen von Java, Figurenatlas, Heft 4, 1911, t.CCLXXVI - CCCLXXIV Plate : 91

Distribution:
W. & S. Malesia
42 BOR JAW LSI MLY SUM


Lifeform:
Pseudobulb epiphyte


Posted  :
15022013