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Bulbophyllum pecten-veneris; photograph (c) Wang.QG, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Wang.QG, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-05-31

Bulbophyllum pecten-veneris (Gagnep.) Seidenf.

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

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Bulbophyllum pecten-veneris, photograph (c) Wang.QG, some rights reserved (CC BY)Bulbophyllum pecten-veneris, photograph (c) Wang.QG, some rights reserved (CC BY)Bulbophyllum pecten-veneris, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBulbophyllum pecten-veneris, photograph Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBulbophyllum pecten-veneris, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia CommonsBulbophyllum pecten-veneris, photograph Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons 7 photographs ›

Summary

Bulbophyllum pecten-veneris is a flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is a species of orchid that is also known as the yellow-flowered bulbophyllum or golden comb orchid.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Bulbophyllum pecten-veneris", 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 epiphyte”.

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 epiphyte”. 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: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 29 of the 30 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, Hainan, China Southeast, Laos, 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 marker22.391, 106.818 · in the densest population, 6 records (20% of those in range)
Kew's description“pseudobulbous epiphyte” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 30 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 17 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 58 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 29 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 openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 30 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: (c) Wang.QG, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

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 Bulbophyllum pecten-veneris f. flavum; Bulbophyllum pecten-veneris f. viridiflorum; Bulbophyllum tingabarinum; Bulbophyllum tingabarinum f. flavum; Cirrhopetalum miniatum and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
(Gagnep.) Seidenf.
Native to
China South-Central, Hainan, China Southeast +2
Wild records
30 in range · 17 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 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
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 answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 11 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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