Dendrochilum loheri Ames 1908 SUBGENUS Acoridium SECTION Acoridium

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

Common Name Loher's Dendrochilum [American Collector in the Philippines late 1800's early 1900's]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found on Luzon within the Philippines without elevational data as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with subglobose to subfusiform pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-oblong, acute, 9 to 11 nerved, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] peduncle, laxly many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Acoridium loheri (Ames) Ames 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 3 Ames 1908 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 7 Ames 1922 as Acoridium loheri; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;

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