Dendrochilum pangasinanense Ames 1923 SECTION Platyclinis Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Common Name The Pangasinan Dendrochilum [A Province of the Philippines]

Flower Size 3/8" [9mm]

Found only in the Philippines as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with eret, slender, semi-spindle-shaped, yellowish in maturity pseudobulbs subtended by elongate soon fibrous sheaths and carrying ellioptic-oblong, heavily veined, petiolate, terete below the middle leaf that envelops the inflorescence when first arising slender and becomes 10" [25 cm] long, with 15 flowers.

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;

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------