Dendrochilum longifolium Rchb. f. 1856 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis [Benth.] Pfitzer
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by André Schuiteman, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey Copyrighted ©
Common Name Long-leafed Dendrochilum
Flower Size about 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in penninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java and Borneo as well as New Guinea and the Philippines at elevations of 450 to 2600 meters on horizontal, mossy tree branches, old mangroves or rocks or cliff faces in semi-exposed locations as a medium to large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte, terrestrial oroccasional lithophyte with narrow, conical, pale green pseudobulbs carrying a solitary, apical, lanceolate-elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the 3" [9 cm] long, petiolate base leaf that blooms masly in the late summer but is possible at any time of the year on a terminal, very slender, gracefully arching, 16" [40 cm] long, densely many [40] flowered inflorescence with broad, distichous bracts as long as the ovary arising with a new growth and carrying very fragrant flowers arranged in two rows.
Comber stated that this species was an epiphyte at lower elevations but that around 2600 meters it was found as a terrestrial in poor grasslands in Papua New Guinea
Said to be close to D krausianum but that the side lobes are quite different and this one has smooth margins.
Synonyms Acoridium bracteosum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1904; Acoridium longifolium (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1904; Dendrochilum amboinense J.J.Sm. 1919; Dendrochilum bartonii (Ridl.) Schltr. 1911; Dendrochilum bracteosum Rchb.f 1861; Dendrochilum clemensiae Ames 1908; Dendrochilum fuscum Teijsm. & Binn. 1862; Dendrochilum longifolium Rchb.f var buruense J.J.Sm. 1928; Dendrochilum macrobulbon Kraenzl 1907; Platyclinis bartoni Ridl. 1908; Platyclinis longifolia Hemsl. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 2 Ames 1908 as D clemensiae drawing good; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911/1985 as D bartonii drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915 as D clemensiae; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Dendrochilum clemensiae; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 8 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of The Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002 as D macrobulbon; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 4 2007 photo; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 12 2013 as D macrobulbon
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