Dendrochilum hamatum Schltr. 1911
SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis [Benth.] Pfitzer
Photo by © P J Cribb
Drawing by © J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Common Name The Hooked Dendrochilum [refers to the stelida of the column]
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in western Borneo as a mini-miniature to miniature sized epiphyte with cylindrical, somewhat dilated towards the base pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-ligulate, acute, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, peduncle .68 to 1.6" [1.7 to 4 cm] long, rachis 1.4 to 2.2" [3.5 to 5.5 cm] long, rather lax, 10 to 16 flowered inflorescence with narrowly triangular-ovate to elliptic, acute, very sparsely ramentaceous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous, wide open flowers.
Very similar to D pubescens as they share a similar habit, lip morphology and flwoer color but D hamatum hlacks the distinctive leaf and floral pubescence od D pubescens and has smaller flowers wqith more distinctly hamate stelida on the column.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Wood & Beaman etal 2001;
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