Dendrochilum hastatum Ames 1908

TYPE Drawing by © Oakes Ames

Part shade Cold Spring Fall

Common Name The Lance Like Lip Dendrochilum

Flower Size

Found on Mindoro in the Philippines at elevations around 2000 to 2100 meters as a mini-miniature sized , cold growing epiphyte with fusiform pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, conspicuously 3 veined, constricted apically, subacute leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on an erect, peduncle filiform, 2.4" [6 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence .

Separated from all others in the Philippines by the fleshy, lance like lip

Synonyms Acoridium hastatum (Ames) Ames 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908 drawing fide; Orchidiana Philippinana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;

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