Dendrochilum cobbianum Rchb.f 1880 SECTION Platyclinis [Benth.] Pfitzer Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Flower Closeup Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Specimen Plant Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name Cobb's Dendrochilum [English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 3/4" at most [to 1.9 cm]
An epiphytic, small sized, hot to warm growing, Philippine species occuring, on mossy tree trunks or as a lithophyte on rocks in full sun, at elevations above 1200 meters with clustered, narrowly conical, yellowish pseudobulbs carrying, a single, apical, oblong-lanceolate, acute, petiolate leaf with a prominent mid rib that blooms in the fall with a sharply pendant, 20" [50 cm] long, ovate bracteate inflorescence with ovate, subacute, glumaceous bracts and many fragrant flowers.
Synonyms Acoridium cobbianum [Rchb.f] Rolfe 1904; Dendrobium cobbianum Rchb.f 1881; Platyclinis cobbiana [Rchb.f]Hemsley 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 8 1997 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 65 No 6 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 9 2003 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 2 2005 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 70 No 5 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 1 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 2 2007 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 5 2009 photo;
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Dendrochilum cobbianum Rchb.f 1880 var alba
A white color form of the previous species.
