Dendrochilum havilandii Pfitzer 1907 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis [Benth.] Pfitzer
Drawing by © Susanna Stuart-Smith
Drawing by © J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
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Common Name Haviland's Dendrochilum [Surgeron and naturalist and curator of the Sarawak museum in Kuching collector of the type later 1800's earlier 1900's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Sarawak Borneo on in lowland and hill forests or on limestone rocks and cliffs at elevations of sealevel to 400 meters as a hot growing lithophyte or epiphyte with a branching, flexuous, smooth rhizome with crowded, approximate, cylindrical, terete to narrowly ovate, pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, tough, coriaceous, shiny above mat beneath, 5 main nerved, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate-obovate, obtuse to subacute, attenuate below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later sumer and fall on an erect, peduncle terete, 5 to 11.2" [12.5 to 28 cm] long, rachis quadrangular, 4.2 to 6.4" [10.5 to 16 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with a solitary, ovate-elliptic, acuminate floral bract.
Synonyms Dendrochilum hewittii J.J.Sm. 1909
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 drawing fide;
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