Dendrochilum alpinum 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
Drawing by © Mutsuko Nakajima
Common Name The Alpine Dendrochilum
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Borneo near Mt Kinabalu in upper montane forests on the side of granite boulders sheltered by stunted trees at elevations of 2400 to 3700 meters as a small sized, cold growing lithophyte with a branching clustered rhizome giving rise to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, narrowly lanceolate, acute, basally clasping into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a terminal, arching, thin, 5" [12.5 cm] long, 2 ranked, many flowered inflorescence with a pendent rachis and simultaneously opening flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing fide; photos ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing good; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 Drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Wood 2003 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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