Bulbophyllum sterile

Bulbophyllum sterile (Lam.) Suresh in D.H.Nicolson, C.R.Suresh & K.S.Manilal, Interpret. Van Rheede’s Hort. Malab.: 298 (1988).
Synonyms:
Epidendrum sterile Lam., Encycl. 1: 189 (1783).
Bulbophyllum nilgherrense Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 1680 (1851).
Phyllorkis nilgherensis (Wight) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 677 (1891).
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Nepal to India and Myanmar: Bangladesh, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal as per POWO;
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Common name: Nilgiri Bulb-Leaf Orchid, Sterile Bulbophyllum
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Bulbophyllum sterile (Lam.) Suresh in D.H.Nicolson, C.R.Suresh & K.S.Manilal, Interpret. Van Rheede’s Hort. Malab.: 298 (1988). Synonym:
Epidendrum sterile Lam., Encycl. 1: 189 (1783).
Bulbophyllum caudatum Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 56 (1830).
Bulbophyllum nilgherrense Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5: t. 1680 (1851).
Phyllorkis caudata (Lindl.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 677 (1891).
Phyllorkis nilgherensis (Wight) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 677 (1891).
Family: ORCHIDACEAE
Distribution: South India, Nepal to Myanmar
Current pic was taken at TBGRI, Trivandrum from their live collections from Kerala.
For you ….. I assume I identified it correctly.
Please check the orientation of inflorescence, length of sepals, loosely arranges flowers etc.
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Orchidaceae Fortnight: Bulbophyllum sterile 151013 GK-14 : Attachments (2). 8 posts by 8 authors.
Bulbophyllum sterile from Pooyamkutty, Kerala
Epiphytes mostly on riparian tree trunk

This section Careyana of Bulbophyllum is very painful!!! I imagine how to resolve them. I assume this one was idied by … too!!!
By any chance can you dissect this flower for me!!! I have careyanum and cars sipes already dissected, we can write one article together !!!

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10MayNVR Epiphyte for ID : 5 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2).
Found in the Western Ghats.

Bulbophyllum sp

Its always helpful if you can be precise about the location of this plant.
If I had to guess, I would say Bulbophyllum rosemarianum. But cant confirm without the flowers.

It seems to be Bulbophyllum sterile (Lam.) Suresh

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ANJAN01/01 Bulbophyllum sterile (Lam.) Suresh : 8 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (3)

Family: Orchidaceae
Date: 29th December 2015
Place: Sirsi, Uttara Kannda district, Karnataka
Habit: Epiphytic herb
Habitat: Margin of semi evergreen forest

Very nice….Orchid treat…!

number 3 pic are those dried flowers with seeds developing?

Thank you very much …
…, the third picture is of the reddish-brown variety of flowers seen in some individuals in the same or nearby populations. Came across this marked difference quite often and made sure that the yellow flowers matured and dried as yellow flowers only and there were young reddish-brown coloured flowers in some individuals.

thanks. so do you have pictures of yellow flowers that dried yellow? if yes can i see them please?

Unfortunately I do not … If possible on my next visit, I will certainly click them.

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Flora of Kaiga_Sharing_05042016 PK1 : 3 posts by 3 authors.

Pl see attached two pics of Bulbophyllum sterile. Endemic to western Ghats. First pic Inflorescence with close up you can see fly entered inside, other pic several orchids in bloom on a vertical moss covered branch, each bearing single leaf
Flora of Kaiga ID Sharing_05042016 PK1
Date/Time-:29/01/2015  –    15:30,
Location- Place, Altitude – Kaiga , Uttar Kannada ,Karnataka, 380 mtrs
Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Wild
Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- Epiphytic herb
Size – 15cm

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TSP-JAN2017-01-458: Bulbophyllum sterile (Orchidaceae) : 18 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5)

Presenting few images of Bulbophyllum sterile (Orchidaceae)  

Habit:Herb 

Habitat:Epiphytic,semi-evergreen forest fringe. 

Sighting:Kottigehara,Chikmagalur,Karnataka,about 1000 msl 

Date:07-01-2017 and 08-01-2017

I imagine why this is not rosemarianum? I always get confused.

One of my friends suggested that this could be B.rosemarianum because of the short and squat pseudobulbs and if it were sweet smelling. I remember  to have sniffed the flowers but were odourless or definitely not foul-smelling.

Those flies are sitting on the flower, and they are always attracted to the smell, so the flowers must be having some smell and specially foul one for those flies.

sorry with those flies, it can be both foul or sweet smelling.

Kindly look @ this link and the images contained there in.
Ref http://florakarnataka.ces.iisc.ac.in/hjcb2/herbsheet.php?id=2993&cat=1

I don’t follow this website and I know it has lot of mistakes. The basic mistake here is the name itself.

Thanks for your thoughts …

the best and easiest way would be to go and smell it again. Please remember that flies get attracted to SMELL….

Thanks for the suggestion…..will do it and comeback to you

Re-visited the specimen as suggested by you. Though I did not smell anything foul two of my team members were unanimous that it smelt a little bit foul…! As you mentioned there were flies…..this time I found many small ‘fruit-fly’ like flies hovering around. I am uploading an image of one such fly that I could photograph. I think that this info helps in nailing the ID.
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Here are icones of B. rosemarianum and B. neilghrrense (= B. sterile)
I always thought they are differentiated on the basis of smell, rosemarianum (fruity) and sterile (foul).
May be they should be merged. But the leaf in your pic is comparatively shorter as I think rosemarianum has much monger leaves.
Column and labellum structure matches very well in both. May be they should be merged.

Thanks … for the vivid explanation…..I will take it as B.sterile in my files for the time being.

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References:
POWO  Flowers of India