Dendrochilum graminifolium (Ames) Pfitzer 1907 SECTION Acoridium

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Grass Like Dendrochilum

Flower Size 1/4" [8 mm]

Found in the Philippines in mossy forests at elevations around 1600 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing orchid with erect, small cylindrical, strongly grooved with age pseudobulbs carrying grasslike, terete leaves that blooms on a loosely, two ranked, many flowered, racemose inflorescence carrying fragrant yellow turning brown in time flowers and glumaceous bracts that almost envelop the flowers

Synonyms *Acoridium graminifolium Ames 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;