Bulbophyllum retusiusculum

Common Name The Notched Bulbophyllum [probably refers tothe minute notch at the apex of the dorsal sepal] - In China Xian Ye Juan Ban Lan

Flower Size 5/8" to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm]

Found in China, Nepal, eastern Himalayas, Assam India, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, and Taiwan in evergreen lowland forests or primary montane forests at elevations of 500 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphytic or occasional lithophytic species with a creeping, branching rhizome with .4 to 1.2" [1 to 3 cm] between each slender, suberect to oblique, narrowly ovate-conical, weakly falcate psuedobulb carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, arcuate, leathery, semi flexible to rigid, linear oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, gradually narrowing below into the channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a basal, ascending to descending, slender, 5.6" [14 cm] long, 6 to 12 flowered, umbellate inflorescence with a few distant, tubular, lanceolate bracts and narrowly lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying an apical umbel of several simultaneously opening, color variable flowers.