It is an epiphyte with 1-leaved pseudobulbs on creeping rhizomes. Pseudobulbs 1.7-3.5 x 1.1-1.6 cm, quadrangular, pale yellowish green, arranged distantly on a thick and wiry rhizome.Leaves 5-18 x 1.6-3.2 cm, erect, oblong, thick and fleshy, deeply channelled in the middle region, narrowed at base into a short petiole, obtuse at apex.Inflorescence arises from the base of the pseudobulb, pale green, longer than leaves with 5.5-9.2 cm long scape bearing 4 cup-like sterile bracts and a short raceme (4-5 cm) of pale yellow flowers smelling like ripened jackfruit of mango. This belongs to the Section Careyana Pfitzer and is related to B. rufilabrum Par. & Rchb.f., but different in having erect, non-geotropic leaves, truncate-angulate, acute dorsal sepal, broad-based, oblique, falcate-aristate petal and yellow lip with brown papilla throughout except the median furrow.

Bulbophyllum rosemarianum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Epidendroideae
Tribe:	Dendrobieae
Genus:	Bulbophyllum
Species:	B. rosemarianum
Binomial name
Bulbophyllum rosemarianum C. S. Kumar, P. C. S. Kumar & Saleem

Bulbophyllum rosemarianum is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum.

References

• The Bulbophyllum-Checklist
• The Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia

External links

• Media related to Bulbophyllum rosemarianum at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Bulbophyllum rosemarianum at Wikispecies

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