Bulbophyllum apodum

Bulbophyllum apodum is found in Yunnan Province of China, the eastern Himalayas, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines in primary lowland forests and coastal shrub vegetation at elevations of sea level to 2000 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with 2 to 3 cm between each, medium green, discoid pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, rather thick, elliptic, acute, abruptly narrowing below into the elongate, conduplicate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall, winter and spring on a basal, erect, laxly many [40] flowered, 14 cm long inflorescence enveloped below by 6 loose, tubular bracts and linear-lanceolate, acute, whitish floral bracts carrying sometimes fragrant flowers.