Dendrochilum crassum Ridl. 1896 SUBGENUS Dendrochilum Photo courtesy of Peter Maxwell

Common Name The Thick Dendrochilum [refers to the leaves and the fleshy floral parts]

Flower Size .2" [4 mm]

Found in penninsular Malaysia and Borneo in montane forests on steep rocky roadside banks often in exposed locations at elevations of 400 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte on sandstone and shaleoutcrops or epiphyte with cylindrical, riged, olive to orange pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, elliptic or oblong elliptic, obtuse, minutely mucronate apically, coriaceous, gradually narrowing below into the clasping, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the summer on a from the rhizome, 7.2" [18 cm] long, densely many flowered, terete inflorescence enveloped almost completely by brown, furfuraceous, somewhat inflated bracts and carrying the sweetly scented flower in an arching spray.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Wood, Shim & Lamb Vol 3 1997; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001;

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