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Bulbophyllum arunachalense

Bulbophyllum arunachalense is a small, critically endangered epiphytic orchid known only from Arunachal Pradesh in India, with one leaf and one crimson flower. It grows on trees in wet tropical forest, so it needs humidity, bright filtered light and careful watering.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Bulb, Orchid
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Keep the pseudobulb and roots lightly moist during growth and let the mix dry slightly between waterings.
Soil
Epiphytic orchid mix of bark, sphagnum or charcoal, or mount on a slab of cork or wood.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 12 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
Arunachal Pradesh
Climate
wet tropical

About

Bulbophyllum arunachalense is a species of critically endangered orchid found only in Arunachal Pradesh in India. It was initially described as Ione arunachalense by Nageswara Rao and later moved to the genus Bulbophyllum.

Where it grows

This species of orchid is restricted to Talle valley in Arunachal Pradesh with no further records from anywhere else as of 2022.

Other Bulbophyllum plants

Bulbophyllum abbreviatum · Bulbophyllum abbrevilabium · Bulbophyllum aberrans · Bulbophyllum ablepharon · Bulbophyllum absconditum · Bulbophyllum acanthoglossum · Bulbophyllum acropogon · Bulbophyllum acuminatum · Bulbophyllum acutibracteatum · Bulbophyllum acutiflorum · Bulbophyllum acutilingue · Bulbophyllum acutispicatum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Bulbophyllum arunachalense by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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