Dendrochilum simile Blume 1825 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis
Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Photos by © David Kuehn.
Common Name The Similar Dendrochilum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Penninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands and Sumatra at elevations around 1075 to 1650 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with ovoid, smooth, close set pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erct, lanceolate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an ascending then pendant, 16" [40 cm] long, to 35 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Acoridium lineare (Ridl.) Rolfe 1904; Acoridium simile (Blume) Rolfe 1904; Dendrochilum lineare (Ridl.) Holttum 1947; Platyclinis linearis Ridl. 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora OF Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953, The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; Orchids of Java Comber 1990, Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001
