Dendrochilum galbanum J.J.Wood 1994 SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis [Benth.] Pfitzer

Inflorescence Photos by © Art Vogel

Part Shade Cool EARLY Spring

Common Name or Meaning The Greenish Yellow Dendrochilum

Flower Size

Found in Sumatra and Borneo in mossy forests on sandstone at elevations of 1800 to 2250 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to clustered, ovoid to ovate-oblong, greenish yellow pseduobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, sulcate, linear-ligulate, obtuse, obtuse and minutely mucronate, 5 nerved leaf that blooms in the early spring on an erect, wirey, quadrangular, orange colored, laxly 12 to 20 flowered inflorescence with ovate-elliptic acute to acuminate floral bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 drawing; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 drawing; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 1 2008 photo/drawing fide;

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