Small epiphyte. Pseudobulbs ovoid, to 4 cm long, well spaced. Leaves strap-like, to 15 cm long, to 1 cm wide, fleshy, shortly stalked. Flowers many in dense terminal umbels, spidery, on stalks to 20 cm long, white or cream, spotted red or yellow; winter. Sepals ovate, with terminal filaments, dorsal to 3 cm long, laterals to 15 cm long, free. Petals ovate-lanceolate, pointed. Labellum entire, ovate, pointed. Syn. Cirrhopetalum medusae Lindl.
B. graveolens (F.M. Bailey) J.J. Sm. from New Guinea, is a large epiphyte with clustered ovoid pseudobulbs, long oblanceolate leaves and terminal umbels of yellowish-green flowers with darker green streaks and red spots near base. Syn. Cirrhopetalum graveolens F.M. Bailey.
B. putidum (Teijsm. &Binn.) J.J. Sm. from India to Indonesia, is a small epiphyte with solitary flowers that are green with crimson spots and streaks, long filamentous lateral sepals that are joined, except at the base, and unusual flag-like glandular hairs on the tips of the dorsal sepal and petals. Syn. B. fascinator (Rolfe) Rolfe, Cirrhopetalum fascinator Rolfe.
B. rothschildianum (O'Brien) J.J. Sm. from India is a small epiphyte with terminal umbels of crimson flowers with yellowish flecks and long filamentous lateral sepals that are joined except at the base. Syn. Cirrhopetalum rothschildianum O'Brien.
Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Source: (2005). Orchidaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
