Dendrochilum yuccifolium L.O. Williams 1937 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis [Benth] Pfitzer Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids
Common Name The Yucca-Like Leaf Dendrochilum
Flower Size 3/5" [1.5 cm]
Found in the Philippines at elevations around 500 meters on the trunks and lower branches of trees with good air circulation and high humidity as a small sized, hot to war mgrowing epiphyte with single leafed, narrowly cylindric, furrowed pseudobulbs with a stiff, linear-lanceolate leaf and blooms in the winter and spring on an semi-arching, short, densely many [30] flowered inflorescence arisng with a new growth.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 8 1997 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 9 1997 photo; Orchids of The Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #2 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 photo ok;
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