Hylophila lanceolata (Blume) Miq. 1859
Photo by Jim Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Lanceolate Hylophila
Flower Size .35" [7.5mm]
Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra and the Philippines in dark humid, hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 600 to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with basally decumbent and then erect stem carrying 6 to 7, ovate, acuminate, acute, larger below and smaller above, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base enveloped by tubular sheaths leaves that bloom in the spring on an erect, 6" [15 cm] long, densely many flowered, terete, sparsely pubescent, olive inflorescence with 3 tubular sheaths and triangular-lanceolate, gradually long, acuminate floral bracts and carrying wide open flowers that face in all directions and about 1/4 of them open at any one time..
Synonyms Dicerostylis kinabaluensis Carr 1935; *Dicerostylis lanceolata Blume 1859;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905 as Dicerostylis lanceolata; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as Dicerostylis lanceolata drawing ok; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Dicerostylis lanceolata; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 as Dicerostylis lanceolata drawing fide; Botanisk Tidsskrift Bind 71 1-30 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand VII Seidenfaden 1976 as Dicerostylis lanceolatus drawing fide; Dansk Botanisl Arkiv Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VI Neottiodeae Seidenfaden 1978 as Dicerostylis lanceolata drawing fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Dicerostylis lanceolata; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlecter 1982; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Woods & Seidenfaden 1992; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photos fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photos fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing ok; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing fide
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