Dendrochilum alpinum Carr 1935 SECTION Eurybrachium

Inflorescence and plant in situ Mt Kinabalu Borneo Photos by © Th. Nordhausen and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Alpine Dendrochilum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Borneo near Mt Kinabalu in upper montane forests on the side of granite boulders sheltered by stunted trees at elevations of 2400 to 3700 meters as a small sized, cold growing lithophyte with a branching clustered rhizome giving rise to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, narrowly lanceolate, acute, basally clasping into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a terminal, arching, thin, 5" [12.5 cm] long, 2 ranked, many flowered inflorescence with a pendednt rachis and simultaeously opening flowers

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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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