Dendrochilum planiscapum Carr 1935 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis
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Photo by © Shaun KL and Shaun KL and the 17th World orchid Congress photo Website
Drawing by © Eleanor Catherine
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Common Name The Flat Plane Dendrochilum [refers to the flowers being all in one plane]
Flower Size .4” [1 cm]
Found in Sabah Borneo in lower and upper montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 2400 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with small, globose pseudobulbs carrying a single, narrowly linear, acute, gradually anrrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, then arching, laterally flattened peduncle, 8" [20 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with subulate, involute, brown, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, two-ranked, fragrant flowers.
" A distinctive plant unlikely to be confused with any other Bornean species on account of the flattened peduncle and the coiled labellum. The coiled labellum recalls the Sumatran D mirabile belonging to the monospecific section Longicolumna. It is probably most closely allied to D odoratum from penninsular Malaysia and D simile from penninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java abd the Lesser Sunda Islands.
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References
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; The Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 Wood 1997 drawing/photo fide; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 photos ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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