Dendrochilum sumatranum J.J.Sm. 1904 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis

Plant and Flowers in situ Sumatra Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Sumatran Dendrochilum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Sumatra at elevations around 1600 to 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with narrowly conical, close set pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-lanceolate, acute to bidentate, broad in the middle, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, robust, to 16" 4 to 6" [40 cm] long, peduncel longer than the rachis, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, boat-shaped floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 2011 photo fide;

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