Dendrochilum quinquecallosum H.A.Pedersen 2007 SUBGENUS Acoridium SECTION Acoridium

Inflorescence Photos by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orcid Photo Website

Common Name The 5 Calli Dendrochilum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Philippines in the mountains of Nueva Vizcaya on Luzon on trees and shrubs at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte with tapered, green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly oblanceolate, acute, prominent mid vein leaf that blooms on a glabrous, 2" [5 cm] long, pendent, alternating flowers, rachis twisted so as to produce a cylindrical, simultaneously to 50 flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #4 2014 photo fide;

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