 "Bulbophyllum wolfei" is an epiphytic or lithophytic herb that has thin, creeping rhizomes pressed against the surface on which it grows and oval-shaped pseudobulbs long, wide and pressed against the rhizome.Each pseudobulb has a thick, fleshy, dark green, oblong to oval leaf long and wide.A single resupinate, cream-coloured flower with prominent, dark red stripes, long and wide is borne on a thread-like flowering stem long.