Dendrochilum megalanthum Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis

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

Common Name The Long Column Foot Dendrochilum

Flower Size .4" [2 cm]

Found in Sumatra at elevations around 750 to 1800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to close set, cylindrical-conical, gradually narrowing towards the apex pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, more or less erect, coriaceous, lanceolate-elliptic, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a thin, basally erect arching above, arising at the same time as the leaves, peduncle naked, glabrous, to 4" [10 cm] long, rachis to 8" [20 cm] long, 15 to 25 flowered inflorescence with spreading, lanceolate-elliptic floral bracts.

Synonyms

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

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