Dendrochilum latifolium Lindl. 1843 SECTION Platyclinis [Benth.] Pfitzer Photo courtesy of Marc Flandre
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
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Common Name Large-leafed Dendrochilum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found only in the Philippines at elevations above 1200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with narrowly conical, approximate, smooth, pale green pseudobulbs carryiong a single, apical, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate leaf with a petiole blooming in the spring on a graceful arching, 6" to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long, densly many flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers arranged in two ranks.
Synonyms Acoridium latifolium (Lindl.) Rolfe 1904; Dendrochilum grandiflorum Schlechter 1910; Platyclinis latifolia Hemsl. 1881
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;
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Dendrochilum latifolium var. macranthum (Schltr.) H.A.Pedersen 1997
Another Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Golden Gate Orchids
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Common Name The Large Flowered Dendrochilum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
This medium sized orchid is endemic to the Philippines at elevations above 1200 meters as a hot to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, plicate leaf that blooms on a terminal, erect then arching, 2' [60 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence occuring in the spring and summer.
Synonyms Dendrochilum cagayanense Ames 1911 ; Dendrochilum grandiflorum Schlechter 1910; Dendrochilum latifolium var. macranthum (Schltr.) H.A.Pedersen 1997; Dendrochilum macranthum Schlechter 1911; Dendrochilum serratum L.O.Williams 1937
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;
