Dendrochilum quadrilobum Ames 1915 SECTION Acordium Photo courtesy of David Banks , Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The 4 Lobed Lip Dendrochilum

Flower Size 1/4" [6 cm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations over 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with oval pseudobulbs enveloped basally by sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear leaf that blooms in the spring on an arching, 4" [10 cm] long, to 25 flowered inflorescence arising with a new growth and carrying sweetly fragrant flowers

Synonyms Acoridium quadrilobum (Ames) Ames 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 8 1997 photo; Orchids of The Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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