Found in the Malaysian pennisula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Moluccas, Sulawesi and New Guinea at elevations around 760 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with 8" [20 cm] between each prominently furrowed, terete pseudobulb enveloped basally by 2 sheaths and carrying a single, apical, tough, leathery, narrowed equally to the apex and the base, acute, narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a 12" [30 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence enveloped by 6 imbricating sheaths and carrying 6 to 8, foul smelling, not wide opening flowers held in a circle.

This species and B binnendijkii are said to be synomonous but there are several differences so I have left them separate for now.

Synonyms Bulbophyllum binnendijkii J.J.Sm. 1905; Bulbophyllum virescens J.J. Sm. 1900; Cirrhopetalum leopardinum Teijsm. & Binn. 1862; Bulbophyllum maximum (Ridl.) Ridl. 1907; Bulbophyllum ridleyanum Garay, Hamer & Siegerist 1994; Cirrhopetalum maximum Ridl. 1900 ;

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