Dendrochilum joclemensii Ames 1920 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Eurybrachium
Photo by © Kathy Barrett
Drawing by © Oakes Ames and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
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Common Name Joclemens' Dendrochilum [American Chaplain Joseph Clemens later 1800/earlier 1900's - Orchid Collector on Mt Kinabalu]
Flower Size .22" [5.5 mm]
Found in northern Borneo as a twig epiphyte in lower montane ridge forests and on mossy roadbanks at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a shortly creeping, clump forming rhizome giving rise to crowded, subfusiform, smooth, becoming rugulose, green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, slender, sulcate, linear, obtuse, apiculate to shortly acute, 3 main nerved, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect to gently curving, peduncle slender, .88" to 1.6" [2.2 to 4 cm] long, greenish orange, rachis quadrangular, 1.4 to 2.2" [4 to 5.5 cm] long, salmon pink, laxly few to about 24 flowered inflorescence with narrowly elliptic, acute floral bracts and carrying unscented flowers that open from the top of the inflorescence down.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 6 pg 55 Ames 1920 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Wood 2003 drawing fide/photo ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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