Dendrochilum cornutum Blume 1925 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Eurybrachum Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Howard Gunn

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Common Name The Horned Dendrochilum

Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]

Found as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte in Borneo, Java and Sumatra at elevations of 200 to 2400 meters as a hot to cool growing epiphyte with close set, long-ovate, pale green speudobulbs carrying a few narrowly lanceolate, acute, petiolate leaves that blooms on a very slender, gracefully arching, 8" [20 cm] long, inflorescence arising on newly matured pseduobulbs occuring in the summer and early fall.

Synonyms Acoridium auritum (Blume) Rolfe 1904; Acoridium cornutum (Blume) Rolfe 1904; Acoridium erosum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1904; Dendrochilum auritum Rchb.f. 1856; Dendrochilum erosum Rchb.f. 1861; Platyclinis cornuta Benth. ex Hemsl. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002