
Bulbophyllum biflorum Whisper Spot Me AM 2025-06-16
Posted on June 16, 2025
Finding
SITF has determined this plant to be a hybrid of B. fascinator x B. biflorum as presented for judging by the exhibitor (Jul 2025), not Bulbophyllum biflorum. Although heavily dominated by the B. biflorum parent, the flowers are too large to be pure B. biflorum. The lip of B. biflorum is an almost flat, more or less a shovel-shaped blade with a short, broad and rounded crest set way back on the lip. The lip of fascinator has two pronounced ridges running down the outside margins all the way to the tip giving it a deep cleft in the middle with a third raised crest in the middle of the cleft. The lip of this plant has the two pronounced ridges that extend to about half the blade and a third crest, visibly reduced between them. B. biflorum has a helmet-shaped dorsal sepal which projects forward, hoodlike over the column. This plant has a straighter dorsal unlike B. biflorum. B. geminatum was also considered as a species with simularities to the submitted plant. It was once considered synonymous with B. biflorum but is now accepted by Kew. This plant has bloomed mutiple times a year, which suggests it is a hybrid, not a species. Most species bloom only once per year at specific times.


















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