Dendrochilum kamborangense Ames 1920 SECTION Platyclinis

Inflorescence and plant in situ Mt Kinabalu Borneo Photos by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Kamborangah Dendrochilum [An Area near Mt Kinabalu]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Borneo near Mt Kinabalu in lower to upper montane mossy forests at elevations 1500 to 2900 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with small, cylindric pseudobulbs enveloped by imbricating, basal, scarious becoming fibrous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, longer than the leaf, 6" [15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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