Dendrochilum apoense T.Hashim. 1981 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Eurybrachium
Inflorescence Photos by © Raab Bustamante and The Phyto Images Website
Common Name The Mt Apo Dendrochilum
Flower Size .18" [4.5 mm]
Found on Mindanao within the Philippines in mossy forests at elevations of 1500 to 2500 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with narrowly pyriform pseudobulbs carrying a single, leathery, linear to lanceolate leaf that blooms in the spring on a twisting, arching, arising with a new growth, to 25 flowered inflorescence carrying sweetly fragrant flowers
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol78 #4 2014 photo fide;
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