Dendrochilum cinnabarinum Pfitzer 1907 SUBGENUS Acoridium SECTION Convoluta

Plant and Flowers in situ the Philippines Photos by © Julie F. Barcelona and The Phyto Images Website

Common Name The Cinnabar Red Dendrochilum

Flower Size .36" [9 mm]

Found on Luzon within the Philippines in mossy forests at elevations above 1600 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with elliptic pseudobulbs carrying a single, leathery, narrowly obliquely linear, 3 prominent veined, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, longer than the leaf, 6" [15 cm] long, loosely to 16 flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms Acoridium cinnabarinum (Pfitzer) Ames 1922; Acoridium sanguineum Ames 1937; Dendrochilum cinnabarinum var. sanguineum (Ames) H.A.Pedersen 1997; Dendrochilum sanguineum (Ames) L.O.Williams, Philipp. J. Sci. 80: 323 (1952

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 3 Ames 1908 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 7 Ames 1922 as Acoridium cinnabarinum; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as D sanguineum ; Orchidiana Philippiana Valmayor 1984; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #4 2014 photo fide;

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