Dendrochilum grandiflorum (Ridl.) J.J.Sm. 1904 SUBGENUS Dendrochilum SECTION Cruciformia
Photos by © Th. Nordhausen and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Drawing by © Susanna Stuart Smith
Common Name The Large Flowered Dendrochilum
Flower Size .24" [6mm]
Found in Borneo near Mt Kinabalu in upper montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 3800 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to cylindric, tapering towards the apex, finely wrinkled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, acute, reticulate nerved, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect to gracefully arching, terminal, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Acoridium grandiflorum (Ridl.) Rolfe 1904; *Platyclinis grandiflora Ridl. 1894
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing fide/photo good; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok/photo good; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fide; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 Drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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