Dendrochilum longifolium Rchb. f. 1856 SECTION Platyclinis [Benth.] Pfitzer Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Another View Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey Copyrighted ©
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Common Name Long-leafed Dendrochilum
Flower Size about 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found on the islands of Sumatra and Java as well as Malasia, New Guinea and the Philippines at elevation of 450 to 2600 meters on horizontal mossy tree branches, old mangroves or rocks or cliff faces in semi-exposed locations as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte, terrestrial and occasional lithophyte with narrow, conical, pale green pseudobulbs carrying a solitary, apical, lanceolate-elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the 3" [9 cm] long petiolate base leaf that blooms masly in the late summer but is possible at any time of the year on a terminal, very slender, gracefully arching, 16" [40 cm] long, densely many [40] flowered inflorescence with broad, distichous bracts as long as the ovary arising with a new growth and having very fragrant flowers arranged in two rows.
Synonyms Acoridium bracteosum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1904; Acoridium longifolium (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1904; Dendrochilum amboinense J.J.Sm. 1919; Dendrochilum bartonii (Ridl.) Schltr. 1911; Dendrochilum bracteosum Rchb.f 1861; Dendrochilum clemensiae Ames 1908; Dendrochilum fuscum Teijsm. & Binn. 1862; Dendrochilum longifolium Rchb.f var buruense J.J.Sm. 1928; Dendrochilum macrobulbon Kraenzl 1907; Platyclinis bartoni Ridl. 1908; Platyclinis longifolia Hemsl. 1881
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Dendrochilum clemensiae; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985 as Dendrochilum bartonii (Ridl.) Schltr. 1911; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 8 1997 photo; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002 as D macrobulbon; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006
