Dendrochilum niveum Ames 1920 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis Photo courtesy of David Banks , Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The White Dendrochilum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Philippines on mossy tree trunks at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with oval pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, petiolate leaf that blooms in the winter and early spring on a gracefully arching, 8" [20 cm] long, many [30] flowered inflorescence arising with a new growth with fragrant [sweet] flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide;

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