Dendrochilum longilabre (Ames) Pfitzer 1907 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis

Lip Drawing

TYPE Drawings by © Oakes Ames

Part shade Cool

Common Name The Long Lip Dendrochilum

Flower Size

Found on Mindanao from Zamboanga in the Philippines at elevations around 1530 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with oblong, spindle-shaped pseudobulbs enveloped by black spotted sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear, oblanceolate, obtuse, tipped with an abrupt short spine, 3 veined, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a shorter than the leaf, 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, slender, zig-zag, rachis 1.8 to 3.2" [7 to 8 cm] long, cylindric, densely many flowered inflorescence with nearly acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying reddish brown flowers when dry.

Synonyms *Acoridium longilabre Ames 1906

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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