Dendrochilum angustifolium Ridl. 1903

Photo by The Environmental Awareness Cameron Highlands Website

Common Name The Narrow Leaved Dendrochilum

Flower Size .5" [1.75 cm] long

Found in penninsular Malaysia and Sumatra at elevations around sea level to 500 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphye with a long, woddy. terete rhizome giving rise to subcylindrical pseudobulbs spaced 1 to 1.5" [2.5 to 3.75 cm] apart and carrying a single, narrowly linear-lanceolate, bluntly mucroulate, basally narrowing leaf that blooms on one to several, basal, peduncle stout, provided with numerous, basal, elongate bracts, rachis scbrid, many flowered inflorescence with ovate, subacute, one half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying greenish white flowers.

CAUTION I have no way of personally verifying this determination so please use with caution!!!!

Synonyms Bolbodium ustulatum (Carr) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Part 1 Ridley 1907; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide;

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