Dendrochilum johannis-winkleri J.J.Sm. 1927 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis

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Common Name Johannis Winkler's Dendrochilum [German Director of Hamburg Botanical Garden, collected type later 1800's mid 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in western Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a branched rhizome giving rise to crowded, oblong-ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-subspathulate, often broadest distally, equally shallowly retuse, rounded apically, 3 main nerved, sulcate, petilate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, peduncle filiform, [8.5 to 10 cm] long, rachis quadrangular, 2.4" [6 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflotescence, with an acute solitary to absenmt bract and oblong-ovate, broadly obtuse floral bracts and carrying greenish white flowers.

This species is distinctive among Borneese Dendrochium because of its leaves that are broadest at the apex and subspathulate.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing good; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 drawing/photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 20 2017 photo fide;

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