Dendrochilum hutchinsonianum Ames 1908 SUBGENUS Acoridium SECTION Acordium Photo by © Gary Yong Gee and his Orchid Photo Website

TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Ames and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Hutchinson's Dendrochilum

Flower Size .36" [9 mm]

Found on Mindoro within the Philippines in dense mossy thickets at elevations around 2500 to 2600 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with elongate, thin pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on new arising growths, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Acoridium hutchinsonianum (Ames) Ames 1922; Acoridium hutchinsonianum (Ames) Ames 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 2 Ames 1908 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 7 Ames 1922 as Acoridium hutchinsonii; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;

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