Bulbophyllum umbellatumLindl.

WFO wfo-0000643701 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Bulbophyllum umbellatum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. a Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-22 / obs. 130020636
Bulbophyllum umbellatum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. b Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130058450
Bulbophyllum umbellatum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127414978
Bulbophyllum umbellatum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130058473
Bulbophyllum umbellatum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130020658
Bulbophyllum umbellatum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127414996
Bulbophyllum umbellatum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130058510
Bulbophyllum umbellatum, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. h Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 130020667

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Bulbophyllum umbellatum is native: China South-Central, Taiwan, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya China South-CentralTaiwanTibetAssamEast HimalayaIndiaLaosMyanmarNepalThailandVietnamWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Bulbophyllum umbellatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Laos LAO
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI
Tibet CHT

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Bolbophyllopsis maculosa Rchb.f.
  • Bolbophyllopsis morphologorum Rchb.f.
  • Bulbophyllum annamicum (Finet) T.B.Nguyen & D.H.Duong
  • Bulbophyllum maculosum (Lindl.) Garay, Hamer & Siegerist
  • Bulbophyllum saruwatarii Hayata
  • Bulbophyllum tibeticum Rolfe
  • Bulbophyllum tortisepalum Guillaumin
  • Bulbophyllum umbellatum var. bergemannii Regel
  • Cirrhopetalum annamicum (Finet) Tang & F.T.Wang
  • Cirrhopetalum bootanense Griff.
  • Cirrhopetalum maculosum Lindl.
  • Cirrhopetalum maculosum var. annamicum Finet ex Gagnep.
  • Cirrhopetalum maculosum var. annamicum Finet
  • Cirrhopetalum maculosum var. frutescens Hook.f.
  • Cirrhopetalum saruwatarii (Hayata) Hayata
  • Cirrhopetalum umbellatum (Lindl.) Linden
  • Hippoglossum umbellatum Breda
  • Phyllorkis bootanensis (Griff.) Kuntze
  • Phyllorkis maculosa (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Phyllorkis umbellata (Lindl.) Kuntze

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.