Dendrochilum aurantiacum Blume 1825 SUBGENUS Dendrochilum

Flower Closeup

Plant and Flowers Photos by Marius Wasbauer

Part Sun Warm" Cool"Spring"

Common Name The Orange Dendrochilum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Java and Sumatra high in trees or scrambling over rocks at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 1.2 to 3.6" [3 to 9 cm] between each, narrowly oblong, pale green to orangy pseudobulb carrying a single, apical erect lanceolate, obtuse, shortly petiolate leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, slightly arching, 4" [10 cm] long, many flowered, , racemose, spaced all along the inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001