Dendrochilum geigeri Cootes, Cabactulan, Pimentel & M.Leon 2017 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis (Benth.) Pfitzer
Photos by Miguel Daniel De Leon and The Phyto Images Website
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Common Name Geiger's Dendrochilum American curator of the Malacology Department of Invertebrate Zoology at Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in California, USA Current]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found on Mindanao in the Philippines in shady Dipterocarp forests at elevations around 840 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with clustered, conical-ovate pseudobulbs enveloped by cataphyls and carrying a single, apical, velvety-glabrous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, unequally rounded below into the brown, glabrous, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later winter on an erect then pendent, synanthous, to 10 " [25 cm] long overall, rachis elongating, middle flowers open first, to 34 flowered inflorescence and carrying mildly fragrant flowers.
Similar to References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*OrchideenJ. 5(1): 9 2017 Cootes, Cabactulan, Pimentel & M.Leon photo fide
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