Bulbophyllum lilacinum
SPECIES
Found in northern penninsular Malaysia and Thailand as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 5" between each narrowly ovoid, slightly 4-angled, smooth pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, fleshy, oblong, apically shortly blunt-pointed leaf with the base narrowing to a short petiole that blooms in the fall on a 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long inflorescence enveloped by a few large sheaths and the drooping, densly many flowered rhachis is 6" [15 cm] long and has flowers that do not open widely.This orchid needs a tree fern mount, partial shade, high humidity and regular water and fertilizer.