Dendrochilum longibulbum Ames 1912 SUBGENUS Acoridium SECTION Convoluta Photo by David Banks , courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Specimen Plant Photo by © Marni Turkel

Common Name or Meaning The Long-Bulbed Dendrochilum

Flower Size 1/4" [6mm]

Found in the Philippines on mossy trees in bright light at elevations above 950 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with oval pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, 3 to 5 mid veins, shortly petiolate leaf and blooms at most any time of the year on an erect then pendulous 4" [10 cm] long, 20 flowered infloresence arising with a new growth.

Synonyms Acoridium longibulbum (Ames) Ames 1922; Acoridium luchanense (Ames) Ames 1922; Dendrochilum luchanense Ames 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 7 Ames 1922 as Acoridium longibulbum; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The 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 fide; Andy Phillips

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