Dendrochilum oxylobum Schltr. 1911 SECTION Platyclinis

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Pointed Lip Dendrochilum

Flower Size .3 to .4" [8 to 9mm]

Found only in Borneo in lower montane forests on sandstone at elevations of 400 to 900 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte or terrestrial with cylindrical to oblong-ovoid, tapering towards the apex, shiney pale green, close set pseudobulbs enveloped basally in youth by 4 to 5, imbricate, tubular, acute, brown sheaths and carrying a single apical, erect, thin textured, brown suffused in youth, lanceolate, acute, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a terminal, erect then abruptly lateral to arching, pale brownish green, glabrous or sparsely brown furfuraceous, to 9.6 to 22.4" [24 to 56 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence arsiing on a newly arising growth

Synonyms Dendrochilum viridifuscum J.J.Sm. 1917

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 3 1997 drawing/photo fide; Dendrochilum of Borneo Wood 2001 photos fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide;

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