Dendrochilum corrugatum (Ridl.) J.J.Sm. 1904 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Eurybrachium

Plant and Flowers in situ Mt Kinabalu Borneo

Photos by © Rogier van Vugt and his PBase Orchid Photo Site

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Common Name The Wrinkled Dendrochilum [refers to the pseudobulbs]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 2100 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing twig epiphyte and sometime lithophyte with clustered, ovoid-globose to broadly ellipsoid, rugulaose, green suffused with red to entirely red pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, minutely apiculate, rigid, sulcate along the middle, dark olive green, 3 to 4 nerved, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, again in the later summer and fall on a basal, erect then arching, terete, filiform, 4 to 10.8" [10 to 26 cm] long, overall, rachis to [5 to 16 cm] long, quadrangular, reddish, subdense to densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-elliptic, acute bracts and broadly ovate, subacute floral bracts.

Similar to D alatum but D corrugatum has broader, fimbriate lip, falcate lateal sepals and non-twisted petals that are aligned 90 degrees from vertical

Synonyms Acoridium corrugatum (Ridl.) Rolfe 1904; Dendrochilum fimbriatum Ames 1920; *Platyclinis corrugata Ridl. 1894

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol VI Ames 1920; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol VI Ames 1920 as D fimbiatum; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as D fimbriatum; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as D fimbriatum; Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 Wood 1997; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Wood 2003 drawing fide; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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