Bulbophyllum tokioi
Bulbophyllum tokioi is a species of plant in the family Orchidaceae. It is endemic to Taiwan. It was described in 1935 by Noriaki Fukuyama.
Identification
B. tokioi has creeping rhizomes, lacking pseudobulbs. Its fleshy, sessile, glabrous leaves are minute, elliptic or elliptic-orbicular, acute or obtuse, somehaving tiny, membranaceous sheaths at base. It has axillary scapes that are slender and erect, with a few sheaths close by its base. Bracts are elliptic and acute.
B. tokioi has two palely yellowed flowers, sometimes having red spots or striations. Its three-nerved, dorsal sepals are membranaceous and hairless. One of these is oblong, while other lateral ones are obliquely triangular and elliptic. Its single-nerved petals are oblong. Its lip is attached to the apex of its thin, un-hornlike column foot is ovate-triangular and purple-tinged, with a rounded to obtuse apex, and a base decurrent into a long, entire, glabrous, membranaceous, three-nerved claw. The column, has stubby stylids at its apex, and its foot is 2 mm long. Its triangularly conic anther is white with an area of red, and its two pollinia are ovoid to ellipsoid.