Dendrochilum muluense J.J.Wood 1984 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis

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Common Name The Mt Mulu Dendrochilum

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Borneo in ridge top montane and mossy oak laurel forests at elevations of 1400 to 2200 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a tough, branching rhizome giving rise to close set, clump-forming, narrowly conical to fusiform, erect pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-ligulate, obtuse, mucronate, 5 main nerved, narrow, sulcate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, porrect to gently curving, peduncle terete, filiform, 2.4 to 5.8" [6 to 14.5 cm] long, glabrous to minutely furfuraceous above, rachis quadrangular, at a sharp angle to the peduncle, .6 to 1.4" [1.5 to 3.5 cm] long, lax to subdense, 8 to 17 flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing ok/photo good; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fide; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Wood & Beaman etal 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 2011 photo fide;

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