Dendrochilum pallidiflavens Blume 1825 SUBGENUS Dendrochilum

Inflorescence Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Flower Closeup Photo by © David Kuehn

FragrancePartial Shade Hot Warm spring THROUGHfall

Common Name or Meaning The Pale Yellow Dendrochilum

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in penninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Java and Thailand and the Philippines on trees near streams at elevations of 50 to 1800 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or epiphyte with an orange rhizome that creeps and branches and has 2.4" [6 cm] between each ovoid to conical, tilted to the side, orange to dull green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a rigid, arching, 5 to 6" [12.5 to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence carrying many wide open, fragrant [sometimes not] flowers.

Synonyms Acoridium brevilabratum (Rendle) Rolfe 1904; Bulbophyllum pteriphilum Rolfe 1894; Dendrobium ridleyi Ames 1921; Dendrochilum album Ridl. 1896; Dendrochilum brevilabratum (Rendle) Pfitzer in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr. 1907; Dendrochilum brevilabratum var. petiolatum J.J.Wood 1984; Dendrochilum bulbophylloides Schltr. 1921; Dendrochilum conopseum Ridl. ex Stapf 1894; Dendrochilum ellipticum Ridl. 1899; Dendrochilum intermedium Ridl. 1908; Dendrochilum micranthum Schltr. 1906; Dendrochilum pallidiflavens var. brevilabratum (Rendle) J.J.Wood 2001; Dendrochilum pallidiflavens var. oblongum J.J.Wood 2001; Dendrochilum pallidiflavens var. pallidiflavens; Dendrochilum pteriphilum (Rolfe) Pfitzer 1907; Dendrochilum spathulatum Ridl. 1908; Dendrochilum weberi Ames 1913 publ. 1914; Platyclinis brevilabrata Rendle 1901

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as D weberi; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;