Dendrochilum gibbsiae Rolfe 1914 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Cruiciformia
Plant and Flowers in situ Mt Kinabalu Borneo
Photos by © Rogier van Vugt and his PBase Orchid Photo Site
Photos by © Art Vogel
Common Name Gibb's Dendrochilum [Mrs Lilian Gibbs, original collector of species late 1800's early 1900's]
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]
Found in Borneo in lower montane laurel forests at elevations of 870 to 3000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with closely caespitose, rarely distant to 1" [2.5 cm] apart, cylindrical, narrowly oblong, ovoid-oblong to narrowly fusiform, smooth to slightly wrinkled, always green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, subacute to acute, thin textured, 5 to 7 main veined leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an ascending to gently curving, terete, 7.2" to 12" [18 to 30 cm] long, many flowered, subdense, racemose inflorescence and carrying flowers that smell strongly of cinnamon or oranges.
Synonyms Dendrochilum kinabuluense Rolfe 1914; Dendrochilum quinquelobum Ames 1920
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol VI Ames 1920; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol VI Ames 1920 as D quinquelobum; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 Wood 1997 drawing/photo fide; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as D quinquelobum drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide
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