Dendrochilum pterogyne Carr 1935 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Eurybrachium

Inflorescence and plant in situ Mt Kinabalu Borneo

Photos by © Th. Nordhausen and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Winged Gynostemium Dendrochilum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Borneo near Mt Kinabalu in upper montane forests at elevations above 900 to 3800 meters as a small sized, to cold growing epiphyte with small ovoid, minutely wrinkled, orange red pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on a terminal, erect, 4" [10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 Drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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