Wild orchids in sumatra: Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f., 1890

Rhizome slender, pseudobulbs crowded conicle 3-angled an inch long. Leaf fleshy narrowly oblanceolate obtuse narrowed at the base, 3-6 inches long, 0.5 inch wide petiolate. Scape slender 2 to 4 inches long, flowers about 13 in a whorl. Bracts narrow lanceolate setaceous half as long as the ovary. Upper ovate aristate yellowish densely spotted with red edge ciliate laterals almost completely connate oblong oblanceolate obtuse. Petals lanceolate aristate hairy on the edge. All similarly coloured. Lip thick curved deep purple with a yellow tip. Column thick, foot about as long, arms short broad rounded or truncate.
(Ridl., Mat. Fl. Malay. Penins. 1: 83 (1907))

Bulbophyllum pulchellum bears up to 10 flowers in a drooping fan. Sepals and petals pale yellowish , densely spotted red, lip purple with a yellow tip. Dorsal sepal hooded with edges finely fringed. Lateral sepals about 1.3cm long, 2.5mm wide, widening slightly from the base to a point beyond the middle, their upper edges joined from near the base to the apex, the ends shortly bluntly pointed curved backwards slightly. Petals a little shorter, gradually narrowed to a long pointed tip.
(Bernabu).

Homotypic Synonyms:
Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 190 (1890). (Kew)
Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 190 (1894). (Correction by admin-BHL)
Phyllorkis ridleyana (Hook.f.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 676 (1891).
Bulbophyllum pulchellum Ridl., Mat. Fl. Malay. Penins. 1: 83 (1907).

Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f.

Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f.

Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f.

Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f.

Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f.

Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f.

Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f.

Cirrhopetalum concinnum Hook.f.

Before bloom.