Dendrochilum abortum (Ames) L.O.Williams 1952 SUBGENUS Acoridium SECTION Acoridium Photo by © Patricia Harding and the The Species Identification Task Force Website

Part shade Cool LATE Summer EARLY Fall

Common Name The Cut Short Dendrochilum

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found on Luzon within the Philippines at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with tapering, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, linear leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, rachis semi-pendulous, slightly longer than the leaf, to 5.2" [13 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Acoridium abortum Ames 1937

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Philippine Native Species Orchids Cootes 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #4 2014 photo fide;

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