Dendrochilum linearifolium Hook.f. 1889

SECTION Platyclinis

Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Photos by © David Kuehn

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Common Name The Linear-Shaped Leaf Dendrochilum

Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]

Found in Malaysia and Sumatra at elevations around 1550 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte and occasional epiphyte with clear green turning brown with age, globose pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear, obtuse, gradually narrowing below in to the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms on a terminal, erect then arching, 6.4" [16 cm] long, several [8 to 12] flowered inflorescence arising with a newly forming pseudobulb growth.

Synonyms Acoridium linearifolium (Hook.f.) Rolfe 1904; Platyclinis linearifolium (Hook.f.) Ridl. 1896; Platyclinis pulchella Ridl. 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Penninsular Mal;ysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002

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