Dipodium speciosum P.O'Byrne 2013 SECTION Leopardanthus
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Splendid Dipodium
Flower Size 1.48" [3.7 cm]
Found in penninsular Malaysia and Thailand in lowland primary forests, hill forests and lower montane forests at elevations of 470 to 1000 meters as a giant sized, hot to warm growing, scrambling/climbing terrestrial with erect stems carrying erect to suberect, strap-shaped, tapering to an acute apex, 3 main ribbed, sheaths erect, conduplicate, wider than the leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, shorter than the leaves, peduncle 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long, 3 bracted, rachis cylindrical, 2 to 8" [5 to 20 cm] long, 4.4 to 12" [11 to 30 cm] long overall, 5 to 33 flowered inflorescence with tightly clasping, acute and briefly acuminate, green to yellow floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 12 O'Byrne 2013 photos fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 19 2017 drawing/photo fide;
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