Dendrochilum microstylum Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Eurybrachium TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Very Small Stylids Dendrochilum [refers to the column]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Sumatra at elevations around 1700 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a creeping, stem-like rhizome with 1.4" [3.5 cm] between each terete pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly lanceolate, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, appearing before the pseudobulbs mature, thin, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, at least 5.6" [14 cm] long overall, 2 ranked, laxly many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001 Drawing fide;

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