Dendrochilum glumaceum Lindl. 1878 SECTION Platyclinis [Benth.] Pfitzer

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Different color Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Another Flower Color Photo courtesy of Joseph Dougherty Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Husk-Like Dendrochilum [Refers to the appearance of the unopened inflorescence]

Flower Size about 1/2" [about 1.25 cm]

A Philippine epiphytic or lithophytic, small to medium sized, hot to cool growing species found at elevations of 500 to 2300 meters on trees and rocks with conical to ovoid, clustered pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, grass-like, erect to narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, plicate, acute or acuminate, longly petiolate leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on an axillary, to 12" [30 cm]long, slender, pendulous-arcuate, inflorescence with with spreading. imbricating, distichous, glumaceous bracts and many fragrant flowers arranged in 2 rows, smelling of sweet hay, and all occupying the apical half.

Synonyms Acoridium glumaceum [Lindley]Rolfe 1881; Dendrochilum glumaceum var validum [Rolfe] Pfitz. 1907; Platyclinis glumacea Benth. ex Hemsl. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;