Dendrochilum graciliscapum (Ames) Pfitzer 1907SUBGENUS Platyclinis SECTION Platyclinis

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Common Name The Thin Inflorescence Dendrochilum

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found on Mindanao within the Philippines on mossy trees at elevations around 1800 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with spindle-shaped pseudobulbs enveloped by, closely appressed, black dotted sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear, narrow, tapering at both ends, obtuse, petiolate base leaf , that blooms in the late winter, spring and summer on threadlike, rachis to 1.8" [4.5 cm] long, 6" [15 cm] long overall, densely many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Acoridium cucullatum Ames 1906; Acoridium graciliscapum Ames 1906; Dendrochilum cucullatum (Ames) Pfitzer 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 2 Ames 1908 drawing ok; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 2 Ames 1908 as D cucullatum drawing ok; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915 as D cucullatum; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 5 Ames 1915; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as D cucculatum; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as Acoridium graciliscapum; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as D cucculatum; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;

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