Dendrochilum uncatum Rchb. f. 1855 SECTION Platyclinis [Benth.] Pfitzer Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Plant and Flowers Photo and award winning plantCourtesy of Jamie Lawson

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Common Name The Hook-Shaped Dendrochilum [Refers to the inward bent to the arms on the column] - In China Zu Zhu Lan

Flower Size 3/8" [.9 cm]

Found in the Philippines and Taiwan as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte occuring at elevatons of 500 to 2300 meters with conical, densely clustered pseudobulbs carrying 2 oblong, tapering to a petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a slender, arcuate, 6" [15 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence arising on a new growth with many [30], fragrant flowers arranged in 2 rows.

Synonyms Acoridium cucumerinum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1904; Acoridium uncatum (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1904; Dendrochilum cucumerinum Rchb. f. 1864; Platyclinis uncata N.E. Br. ex B.S. Williams 1894

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 8 1997 photo; Orchids of The Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 4 2003 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide

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