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Bulbophyllum bicolor Lindl.

Orchidaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast +3 · listed by its genus as an orchid

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Summary

Bulbophyllum bicolor is a species of orchid in the genus Bulbophyllum. It is found only in Hong Kong and isolated parts of southeast China and northern Vietnam.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Bulbophyllum bicolor", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Bulbophyllum in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous lithophyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Bulbophyllum in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous lithophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 8 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 8 of the 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker22.35, 114.15 · in the densest population, 5 records (63% of those in range)
Kew's description“pseudobulbous lithophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 8 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 292 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 8 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2); Chritian Aparecido Demetrio, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Greg Steenbeeke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Bulbophyllum 130 in the reference

Bulbophyllum acutiflorum Bulbophyllum acutiflorum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Yercaud-elangoBulbophyllum affine Bulbophyllum affine Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng Zeng Bulbophyllum alticola Orchidaceae Bulbophyllum ambrosia Bulbophyllum ambrosia Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedBulbophyllum amplebracteatum Bulbophyllum amplebracteatum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, snotch from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan Bulbophyllum andersonii Orchidaceae Bulbophyllum annandalei Bulbophyllum annandalei Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, VonrothbartBulbophyllum apodum Bulbophyllum apodum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, RudolphousBulbophyllum arfakianum Bulbophyllum arfakianum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, OrchiBulbophyllum auratum Bulbophyllum auratum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, dwittkowerBulbophyllum baileyi Bulbophyllum baileyi Fruit fly orchid Photo: CC BY, quirinoBulbophyllum barbigerum Bulbophyllum barbigerum Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael Wolf all 131 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cirrhopetalum bicolor; Phyllorchis bicolor; Phyllorkis bicolor. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Lindl.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast, Laos +2
Wild records
8 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-218 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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