Dendrochilum merapiense Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Eurybrachium

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Th Nordhausen and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Mt Merapi Dendrochilum

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in western Sumatra at elevations around 1700 to 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to close set, erect, linear, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a , mostly erect but arching at the apex, arising at the same time as the leaves, peduncle to 1.2" [3 cm] long, rachis laterally flattened, 2 to 2.4 [5 to 6 cm] long, 3.2 to 3.6" [9 cm] long overall, laxly 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, a little longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Dendrochilum liparidiflorum J.J.Sm. 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001

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