Dendrochilum grandiflorum (Ridl.) J.J.Sm. 1904 SECTION Cruciformia

Inflorescence Photos by © Th. Nordhausen and The Swiss Orchid foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Large Flowered Dendrochilum

Flower Size .24" [6mm]

Found in Borneo near Mt Kinabalu in upper montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 3800 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to cylindric, tapering towards the apex, finely wrinkled pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, acute, reticulate nerved, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect to gracefully arching, terminal, to 6" [to 15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Acoridium grandiflorum (Ridl.) Rolfe 1904; *Platyclinis grandiflora Ridl. 1894

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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