Dendrochilum tenuifolium (Ames) Pfitzer 1907 SUBGENUS Acoridium SECTION Acoridium
Drawing by © Ames and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Drawing and Collection sheet by © Ames and The Filbot Flickr Website
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Common Name The Slim Leaf Dendrochilum
Flower Size .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm]
Found on Luzon within the Philippines at elevations around 2060 to 2260 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cold growing epiphyte with slender, tapering at both ends pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, linear, 3 veined, tapering below into a slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, shorter than the leaf, 1.2 to 4.8" [3 to 12 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Acoridium tenuifolium Ames 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 2 Ames 1908 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo hmm
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