Dendrochilum abbreviatum Blume 1825 SECTION Platyclinis [Bentham] Pfitzer Photo courtesy of Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
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Common Name The Short Dendrochilum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Java in primary forests at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with oblong, dark green pseudobulbs with large, acute gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a undeveloped pseudobulb before the leaf emerges, 10 to 13" [25 to 32.5 cm] long, many [25 to 35 flowered inflorescence.
Thie orchid in the photo is Dendrochilum abbreviatum var reniformis.
Synonyms Acoridium abbreviatum (Blume) Rolfe 1904; Dendrochilum abbreviatum var reniformis J.J. Sm. 1905; Liparis abbreviata (Blume) N.E.Br. 1882; Platyclinis abbreviata (Blume) Benth. ex Hemsl. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Orchids of Java Comber 1990