Dendrochilum lepidum Ridl. 1923 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Eurybrachium

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Beautiful Dendrochilum

Flower Size .152" [3.8 mm]

Found in Sumatra in forests at elevations around 1280 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a branching, faily slender rhizome giving rise to cylindrical, to 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] apart, swollena bit basally pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, pendent, papery, oblong-lanceolate, acumiante, narrowing below rather abruptly into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slender, peduncle 4" [10 cm] long, 10" [25 cm] long overall, densely many flowered inflorescence with oblong, mucronate, a little longer than the ovary floral bracts carrying greenish white flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001 drawing fide;

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