Bulbophyllum medusae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Bulbophyllum
- Species
- Bulbophyllum medusae
- Scientific Name
- Bulbophyllum medusae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bulbophyllum medusae
Bulbophyllum medusae is an epiphytic orchid native to lowland and hill forests of Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, and Borneo. It is distinguished by its rounded inflorescences bearing many small flowers with long, filamentous lateral sepals that radiate outward in loose strands.
The species was first described as Cirrhopetalum medusae by John Lindley in 1842, and transferred to Bulbophyllum by Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in 1861.
...Bulbophyllum medusae in languages:
- Portuguese
- Orquídea-medusa
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Bulbophyllum angustifolium
- Bulbophyllum cauliflorum
- Bulbophyllum concinnum
- Bulbophyllum evrardii
- Bulbophyllum flavidiflorum
- Bulbophyllum kwangtungense
- Bulbophyllum laxiflorum
- Bulbophyllum ledungense
- Bulbophyllum medusae
- Bulbophyllum obtusum
- Bulbophyllum odoratissimum
- Bulbophyllum shweliense
- Bulbophyllum stellatum
- Bulbophyllum sulcatum


















