Dendrochilum duplicibrachium J.J.Sm. 1922 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis Photo by © Leicneagra and The Wild Orchids Of Sumatra Website

Common Name The Two Bracted Dendrochilum

Flower Size

Found in Sumatra at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short, branched, terete rhizome giving rise to close set, thin, terete, narrowing apically, pale opaque green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, acute, green above, some minute purple spotting beneath, channeled in to the petiolalte base leaf that blooms on a thin, , peduncle to 5.2" [13 cm] long, rachis, pendulous, more or less the same length as the peduncle, many flowered inflorescence.

J J Smith stated that D duplicibrachium was close to D simile but stands closer to D odoratum from which it differs by the flower color, the denticulate lip with 3 longitudinal keels and the shape of the column.

Synonyms

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

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