Dendrochilum microchilum (Schltr.) Ames 1908 SECTION Acoridium

Plant and Flowers in situ Java Photos by © J & L Orchids

Common Name or Meaning The Small Lipped Dendrochilum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations of 500 to 2400 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with ovate pseudobulbs enveloped by leafless sheaths in youth carrying a single, linear, 3 veined leaves that blooms on an gracefully arching, very slender, arising with a new growth to 5.8" [14.5 cm] long, to 40 flowered inflroescence

Synonyms Acoridium microchilum (Schltr.) Ames 1922; Acoridium tenue Ames 1906; Dendrochilum tenue (Ames) Pfitzer 1907; *Platyclinis microchila Schltr. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaniana Philippiana Val Mayor 1986; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001