Bulbophyllum triste Rchb.

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 51

Bulbophyllum triste Rchb. f. in Ann. Bot. Syst. (Walpers) 6: 253, 1861

Homotypic synonym: Phyllorkis tristis (Rchb.f.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen . Pl. 2: 678, 1891.

Heterotypic synonyms: Bulbophyllum alopecurus Rchb. f., Gard. Chron., n.s., 14: 70, 1880. Phyllorkis alopecurus (Rchb.f.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen . Pl. 2: 677, 1891. Type:— MYANMAR. Without locality: Curnow s.n. (holotype: W).

Bulbophyllum micranthum Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 768, 1890, nom. illeg. Phyllorkis micrantha (Hook.f.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen . Pl. 2: 677, 1891. Type:— MYANMAR. Bago Region: Taungoo District, 1 Feb 1868, Parish 207 (holotype: K).

Bulbophyllum mackeeanum Guillaumin, Bull. Mus . Natl. Hist. Nat ., sér. 2, 34: 95, 1962. Type:— MYANMAR. Shan State: Taunggyi District, 1550 m, McKee 6184 (holotype: P).

Specimens examined:— CHIN. Falam District: 1190 m, 28 Mar 1938, Dickason 7229 ( AMES); Mindat District : fide Aung et al. (2020: 67) . SHAN. Unspecified: Pereira s.n. ( SING); Taunggyi District : type . KAYIN. Myawaddy District : 1871, Parish 207 ( K, note on the type sheet of B. micranthum ) . BAGO. Taungoo District: type. WITHOUT LOCALITY. Type. Reported from Tanintharyi Region by Kress et al. (2003: 68), but we have not seen material from this area.

Distribution:— India, the Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand and southwestern China.

Notes:— There is apparently a Day drawing at K from the same importation as that of the type of B. alopecurus . Parish used the number 207 twice for the same species from different localities because he thought they were the same. He noted on his collection no. 207 (type of B. micranthum ) that the same plant also occurred in Ta-ok, Myawaddy District, Kayin State. However no specimen from Ta-ok was collected by him, and therefore a syntype from Ta-ok does not exist.