ID help needed

[DIKTHAI]

I believe that this is a B. crassipes but should appreciate confirmation. Thanks for your help.

[Mike O'C]

Originally Posted by DIKTHAI

I believe that this is a B. crassipes but should appreciate confirmation. Thanks for your help.

Dikthai don't really know what your Bulbophyllum is. It certainly belongs in the Section Careyanum or Racemosae depending on whether you follow Siegerist or Seidenfadden. Here in South Africa we have similar Bulbophyllums masquerading under the names Bulbophyllum careyanum and Bulbophyllum orientale. Take a strong magnifying glass and look at the column just below the stigma and see if there is a little "tongue" of tissue present. Seidenfaden using this characteristic to differentiate Bulbophyllum orientale. If yopu go to Yahoogroups.com and join clubBulbo and you post a jpeg picture of your plant on their news group (you can paste a copy of the JPEG photo onto your messge or add it as an attachmnet the members will almost certainly tell you what plant is. Look forward to seeing your message on clubBulbo!

[DIKTHAI]

Originally Posted by Mike O'C

Dikthai don't really know what your Bulbophyllum is. It certainly belongs in the Section Careyanum or Racemosae depending on whether you follow Siegerist or Seidenfadden. Here in South Africa we have similar Bulbophyllums masquerading under the names Bulbophyllum careyanum and Bulbophyllum orientale. Take a strong magnifying glass and look at the column just below the stigma and see if there is a little "tongue" of tissue present. Seidenfaden using this characteristic to differentiate Bulbophyllum orientale. If yopu go to Yahoogroups.com and join clubBulbo and you post a jpeg picture of your plant on their news group (you can paste a copy of the JPEG photo onto your messge or add it as an attachmnet the members will almost certainly tell you what plant is. Look forward to seeing your message on clubBulbo!

Appreciate your comments and suggestions re Yahoo.

[Mike O'C]

Originally Posted by DIKTHAI

Appreciate your comments and suggestions re Yahoo.

Pleasure DIKTHAI. Pulled out my book by Seidenfaden on Orchid Genera in Thailand VIII :Bulbophyllum and he has a picture of Bulbophyllum crassipes but it is a brownish yelow colour and quite unlike you plant. I suggest that your plant may be Bulbophyllum careyanum.

[DIKTHAI]

Mike, I think that we are both correct. I found the ident. as: Bulbophyllum careyanum var. crassipes (Hook.f.) Pradhan 1979. Thanks for your help.

[Mike O'C]

Originally Posted by DIKTHAI

Mike, I think that we are both correct. I found the ident. as: Bulbophyllum careyanum var. crassipes (Hook.f.) Pradhan 1979. Thanks for your help.

Dikthai, Do you have siegerist's book "Bulbophyllums and their Allies"? It would appear that Bulbophyllum crassipes is a valid species in its own right and not a variety of Bulbophyllum careyanum. According to Siegerist the difference between the two is that Bulbophyllum crassipes has " small stelidia (teeth) on the column that point forward and by the labellum which has a broad U shape." I cannot find a referecne in Siegerist or Seidenfaden to Pradhan placing it as a variey of Bulbophyllum careyanum var crassipes.

[DIKTHAI]

Mike, I looked it up at the following web page: IOSPE PHOTOS and if you go there you will find that both Siegerist and Seidenfaden are referenced.

[Sandy4453]

It definitely looks like a Bulbo crassipes. I've got one but don't have a photo of the blooms to show you for comparrison. The crassipes have very round, fat bulbs. Here's mine for you to compare...
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Disclaimer: just read Mike's responses here and if say's it is or isn't, I'd listen to him and not me. This man knows his Bulbos!

[Mike O'C]

Originally Posted by Sandy4453

It definitely looks like a Bulbo crassipes. I've got one but don't have a photo of the blooms to show you for comparrison. The crassipes have very round, fat bulbs. Here's mine for you to compare...
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Disclaimer: just read Mike's responses here and if say's it is or isn't, I'd listen to him and not me. This man knows his Bulbos!

Thanks Sandy You say the nicest things